Word: mountainous
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Brother C. (for Cash, he likes to say) Thomas Patten had little contact with religion as a youngster in Tennessee. "My Daddy was baptized a Baptist in a mountain stream," he explains, "but a crawfish bit him on his big toe and he never went back." Tom got to be a carouser, "drank like a fish," even got himself a suspended two-year prison sentence for driving a stolen car across a state line. But he saw the light after he met Evangelist Bebe Harrison, "the only woman I ever saw that I couldn't get fresh with...
...Leather Strap. In Rome, Ga., a federal jury had listened for ten days to the story of what happened one night almost a year ago in the little (pop. 200) mountain town of Hooker, just across from the Tennessee line. There was not much argument over the facts. A hooded mob of Ku Kluxers planted a flaming cross in the front yard of Mrs. Mamie Clay, broke up a neighborhood party and then hauled seven Negroes off to a nearby schoolyard. There, one by one, they were ordered to strip off their trousers, were thrown to the ground and lashed...
Three teams from the varsity ski squad and the Harvard Ski Club will go to the Drifter's Ski Club in Kearsage, New Hampshire, today to compete in the downhill race at nearby Bear Mountain...
Although chiefly noted for his critical works, Beach has produced both poems, and a novel. His first published work was a book of sonnets written when he was only 23. Since then he has produced many other poems and one novel, called "The Glass Mountain." The most recent of his creative works is a book of poems called "Involuntary Witness." It will be published by Macmillan in a few weeks...
Although Farquar Shussboomer, a noted skimeister once claimed that you can't learn to ski in your living room, his arguments were disputed three weeks ago by the winner of the Askawan Mountain Open who stated that he had practiced skiing for six years without ever leaving his house. Considerable research has been carried on since this amazing idea was brought forth, and although results of this study are not yet complete, there is strong evidence that drawing room skiing is much more difficult than the outdoor version...