Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody, apparently, remembered Churchill's sage advice as the operational order was drawn for a routine, company-size raid by the U.S. 7th Division on the Korean front near Chorwon. The focus of attack was a knob called Spud Hill, in the T-Bone mountain area. Air and artillery were to plaster the enemy position, then tank-supported infantry was to move up, grab prisoners, finish destroying Communist bunkers and tunnels. Code word: Operation Smack...
...43rd Dartmouth weekend sloshes into the snow Saturday as Button's Olympic teammates Brooks Dodge and Bill Reck pace the host team's bid to cop their own skiing Championship. The racing face includes a giant down hill on Moose Mountain north of Hanover and jumping on the Indians 40 meter golf course hill in the carnival...
Ingalls himself has done anything but that. Brought up in the mountain country of Virginia, he graduated from high school at the age of fifteen and persuaded his father to let him study music in Germany. "In Munich," he says, "I learned how to ski and speak German and that I wasn't a musician." After a year in Germany Ingalls came back to enter Harvard with the class of '36. He majored in classics, and took his first Sanskrit course, "out of curiosity." In the spring of his first year, he was "dropped" for failing to show...
Ever since the publication four years ago of his bestselling autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, Trappist Thomas Merton (Father Louis) has been testifying to the virtues of the strict monastic life.* At least one of his fellow monks thinks that Merton makes too broad a case. Dom Aelred Graham, 46, a British theologian and an author himself (his latest book: Catholicism and the World Today), is now prior of St. Gregory's Priory in Portsmouth, R.I. He belongs to the Benedictines, an order older than the Trappists and far less stern in its practices. Writing for the Atlantic Monthly...
Most of the audience seemed vague about what it all meant, but were won over by the massive orchestration, applauded for five minutes. A mountain-climbing enthusiast approved: "On the top of a mountain, you get exactly the same feeling. If he can get that over, he's terrific." Old Composer Vaughan Williams was vaguest of all about the performance: his hearing aid broke down early in the concert...