Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result, there are hippies of every stripe: city and suburban hippies, who can do their thing only in urban environments; beach hippies and mountain hippies, Indian hippies and neoPolynesian hippies, desert hippies and river hippies, musical and poetical and light and sound hippies, all doing their thing as they see it to be done, some alone and some in "tribes" of like-minded thing-doers...
...stream of fast-flowing air passes through an air mass moving at a lower velocity or in the opposite direction. The resulting shearing action produces turbulence-often severe-at the boundaries of the stream. CAT is usually encountered near the constantly shifting west-to-east jet stream and near mountain ranges, where cold air frequently spills at great speed down the leeward slopes. Although the turbulence is obvious to any pilot caught in it, it cannot be seen by the human eye. Attempts to detect CAT with devices that bounce radar or laser beams against it have so far proved...
...English. The great Red scare after World War I hastened their end. In 1918, after a series of mass deportations and jailings, 101 Wobbly chieftains were tried in Chicago on a five-count indictment charging them with various conspiracies. The presiding judge was Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who, according to Wobbly John Reed, had "the face of Andrew Jackson three years dead." The accused were found guilty and their sentences ran up to 35 years' imprisonment. Wobbly wit flickered a last time when Ben Fletcher, the only Negro defendant, cracked: "Judge Landis has been using bad English today-his sentences...
TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC. 9-11 p.m.). Charlton Heston comes down from the mountain to become Buffalo Bill in Pony Express...
...Just before graduation, he married Jean Stafford. Two years his senior, she was intense, beautiful, a gifted writer of fiction (she later wrote Boston Adventure, The Mountain Lion) and an assistant professor at Stevens College in Columbia, Mo. And so, with his marriage, his graduation and his conversion, he at last stood outside the long shadow of Beacon Hill. He would deal with its traditional claims upon him only in his own terms: in poetry. And he would write New England's epitaph rather than a Frostian celebration...