Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About Face. In Denver, Rocky Mountain News Sob Sister Molly Mayfield got an unanswerable letter from a correspondent named Eve: "After 34 years together, I'm beginning to dislike my husband . . . He has developed a marked resemblance to President Truman...
...supporters of both Senator Taft and General Eisenhower regarded a resolution adopted yesterday by party chairmen of eighteen Midwestern and Rocky Mountain states as a boost for their respective candidates. The resolution...favored "a candidate whose hands are not tied and who has no strings attached, who will wage war without wavering against the gigantic pyramid of unholy power which has been erected on the banks of the Potomac." --from The New York Times January...
...Soldier-Diplomat Patrick J. Hurley, who recently made Oklahoma's Hall of Fame, landed in still another niche: the Denver Post's Hall of Fame, for his "outstanding leadership and success" as chairman of the Rocky Mountain Scrap Mobilization Committee...
...steered clear of the social whirl which delights and hampers Madrid's official world with an average of 25 diplomatic cocktail parties a week. Finding official statistics totally unreliable, Sufrin & Co. had fanned out across the country. They hiked up the Pyrenees, Guadarrama and Cantabrian mountain ranges to have a firsthand look at hydroelectric plants. They poked underground in Asturias' and Galicia's coal pits, riding in shafts without safety devices. They visited factories, farms, fishing centers, shipyards. They talked with workers, industrialists, peasants and bureaucrats. They offered neither criticism nor advice-they just noted...
...that dank forest where the Orinoco is a turbulent but puny brook, numerous tributaries tumble through the Parima Mountains. By measuring the varying rates of flow of these mountain streams, Major Rísquez Iribarren's men determined what they are sure is the true path of the river. Their observations also located the source of the Orinoco at Lat. 2° 18 min. North, Long. 63° 15 min. West, a few miles to the west of where...