Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tokchon area, near the center of North Korea's narrow waist, and on the northeast coast. In both cases R.O.K. units bore the brunt. At Tokchon R.O.K. troops were driven to the south of the Taedong River, but bounced back across it and seized 3,000-ft. Wolbong Mountain, commanding several miles of lateral road along the front. On the east coast the Reds were stopped with the help of Allied airplanes and naval gunfire, from the cruiser Rochester and a destroyer. This week the South Koreans were again rapidly pushing toward the Red-held port of Chongjin. They...
...swept him over a crevasse and buried him under 20 feet of snow. Two hours later a walkie-talkie notice of his death filtered down to his wife and two children in the valley. By radio the word came back from the French army ordering all men off the mountain...
...Mountain Mouse. By then the fog had lifted, leaving the air crystal clear. Villagers below could now see tiny lights still moving up and up along the mountain. Lacking radios and fortified with grog, the St. Gervais party was pushing on. They spent the night in a refuge hut. Next morning at 6 they started climbing again. One of the climbers froze his foot and went back under protest. "By noon," said Viallet later, "we had dug through snow up to our chests across the corridor of avalanches . . . We drank grog. That's very important on the mountain...
Chinese Communist march into Tibet. Truth is, there are no roads between Tibet and Nepal, and the Communists, for once, had little or nothing to do with null flight. It is just the way things are (and for 104 years have been) in the mysterious mountain kingdom of Nepal...
...directly proportionate to their distances. The farther away they are, the faster they are moving. At an easily calculated-distance (about 2 billion light-years), the galaxies must be receding at the speed of light itself. No matter how big his telescopes may grow (the 200-inch on Palomar Mountain can penetrate half that distance), an earthling will never see such galaxies. They are speeding awa.y too fast; their light can never reach the earth...