Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...among the world's worst: open sewers and crowded barracks breed typhoid and dysentery, rats spread plague, and prostitution keeps the venereal disease-rate high. Last week, westbound fugitives from the mines told of an added horror which has turned many miners into choking wrecks: Schneeberger Krankheit (Snow-Mountain sickness...
Then, while Lila reads, Wallace walks up a winding staircase to his medieval-tower workroom. Beneath its hewn beams, soothed by soft music piped in from a control-panel below, he works, usually till midnight, at the sprawling mountain of manuscripts piled on his desk. Memos have been known to molder in the pile for years, before Wallace got around to scrawling in the margin: "Sure. Go ahead. Wally." But the stuff he regards as important does not linger there long. Next morning, Wallace loads his completed work into his briefcase and careens off to the office in his battered...
...sergeant gags disappear. Instead there are the drawings that eventually took Mauldin away from his division and gave his a job doing them full time--the wry drawings of tired, unshaven men, fighting a tough and unglamorous war, of muddy soldiers sleeping on their feet, kidnapping replacements, fighting from mountain to mountain in an unfunny struggle to keep warm, dry, and alive...
...muzzles rising slowly. Marksheffel dropped a hand, and a seaman pressed a warning buzzer three times with his left hand. With his right, he squeezed a pistol-like trigger, firing the first gun. The ship's crockery rattled as a 260-lb. shell hurtled over the mountain...
Ever since, Jo Davidson has let his beard grow. Today it is the finest growth of anti-freeze known to U.S. art since Walt Whitman's-in fact, New York Park Commissioner Robert Moses, unveiling Davidson's statue of Whitman in Bear Mountain Park, declared himself "not quite sure whether this is a statue of Walt Whitman by Jo Davidson or a statue of Jo Davidson by Walt Whitman...