Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...19th Infantry Regiment, was awakened from the sleep of the exhausted by the zing of Communist bullets over his foxhole. For an hour before, confident Communist infantrymen, their conical Russian helmets sticking up like mushrooms through the early morning mist, had marched along a steep dirt road to a mountain pass commanding the U.S. positions. Wakeful U.S. sentries heard the Reds singing snatches of Communist marching songs as they pulled an aged, creaking, Russian heavy machine gun up the steepening slope...
Though it is far from any mountain, Oxford University is a pretty good place to study climbing. The gates of all colleges are locked at midnight, so for generations night-foundered students have made a practice of climbing in over the college walls. Rasher spirits, who like night climbing for night climbing's sake, have attacked the spiky heights of Oxford's 73-ft. Martyrs' Memorial,* and left it capped with proofs of their prowess-on several occasions, a chamberpot. Last week, two members of Oxford's Mountaineering Club who had tackled the spire...
This weapon is an accurate, long-range (up to nine miles) piece, especially useful for barrage fire against tanks that are channeled by mountain defiles or unfavorable ground. U.S. troops are using these now in Korea...
When the Japs threatened northwest Burma early in 1944, Williams was told to lead his 45 elephants out any way he could. His story of how he coaxed them, their riders, and a small army of hungry refugees over more than 100 miles of plains and mountain wilderness between Kan-chaung, Burma and Silchar, India will remind readers, as it does Elephant Bill himself, of Hannibal's crossing of the Alps. But Williams keeps his voice at a modest pitch even when reciting this journey's most spectacular feat, i.e., leading his charges across a 3-ft.-wide...
...wants to make noise in sedate Switzerland, he is expected to go off to a mountain and yodel. Last year the U.S.'s Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. decided to liven things up: it introduced the jukebox to Switzerland...