Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trimble, a leading manufacturer of "I Like Ike" buttons, designed a new button saying: "I Told You So." He was not likely to find many customers; the victors were not much in the mood to gloat. The Republicans, said one Kentucky Democrat, were "like the mountain boy who courted the same woman for 20 years. When she finally gave in, he sat down and cried because he was afraid he might do something wrong." All over the country, people were paying off election bets. In Lowell, Mass., one loser let himself be bombarded by custard pies; in Alabama, a girl...
...answer to a persistent question, a famous mountain climber once said, "I climb a mountain climber once said, "I climb a mountain because it's there." An equally presistent question has been, "Why does a man fight bulls?" One looks for the answer in the autobiography of Sidney Franklin, the only American over to become a successful bullfighter. But while the book in an intriguing account of an exciting life, it never satisfies this demand...
...Yorker cartoon of some months ago pictured a perpendicular mountain peak, with two puffing, heavily loaded climbers just reaching the top. Standing at the summit was a third gentleman, dressed in business suit and Alpine hat. He was shouting excitedly into a walkie-talkie...
Calling themselves "Maggie's Art Club," they tackled seascapes and carrier scenes at first. Later, on shore leave in Greece, Malta, North Africa, and Scotland, they hired buses and taxis, went bouncing off to paint fishing boats, beaches, mountain lakes and villages. Some seemed to model themselves on the 19th century French impressionists, some on the romantics, while others were harshly realistic. There were also a few pieces of surrealism and a scattering of abstractions. Even more interesting to Law .was the quality of the work. "I've tried to let them come along on their...
Last week, as the season reached its peak in the Rocky Mountain area west of Denver and some 135,000 legal, licensed hunters were hot on the trail, the two poachers were serving out their time. Most Coloradans thought they had got just what they deserved. But even the legal hunters were cutting some unlovely capers as they went after deer, elk or bear...