Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Attacking Chinese Reds swarmed down the mountain valleys on both sides of Chipyong, the tip of a precarious but vital U.N. salient. Freeman set up a circular defense perimeter on a low ring of hills, said to his men: "There is no place to go. We are cut off and surrounded. This is a key point of the Eighth Army effort, so we will stay here and kill Chinese...
...issued an ultimatum to village elders: cooperate by Jan. 27, or have your property confiscated. Thais and Muongs began taking refuge behind the French lines. The French recruited them at 350 (good) piasters a month, armed them with rifles, mortars. Soon the French had a barefooted, beret-wearing, mobile mountain force of several thousand...
Mount Lamington is a 5,534-ft. volcano in the Owen-Stanley range, New Guinea. White residents call it the "Marx Brothers," because it has four cones; natives know it as "Spirit Mountain," from a legend that it once breathed fire...
...around Lamington. After the war it became again an area of peaceful coconut plantations, native villages and missions. Seventy whites, mostly Australian government officials and missionaries, and 4,400 natives, all but 400 of them Christians, lived there. When the non-Christian natives recently began predicting that the Spirit Mountain would again spew fire and death, the mission natives scoffed at the "barbarians." But the barbarians went away...
...Arias to call off all public assemblies. But in Trinidad, the calypso tents have been billowing for weeks to the chants of contenders for the title of 1951 calypso king. In Haiti, more than 30,000 people, clad in bamboo suits of armor and other bizarre costumes, loped along mountain trails on their way to masquerade in Port-au-Prince. In Buenos Aires' downtown Avenida de Mayo, colored lights, bunting and comic posters went up in preparation for a municipal jamboree. In Uruguay, practical jokers would soon be in full frolic on Montevideo's streets. In Lima, everybody...