Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That energy, perseverance and talent for organization earned Clark the attention of party elders. From 1969 to 1972 he was executive assistant to then Tory Leader Robert Stanfield. He resigned to run for the House of Commons from the Alberta district of Rocky Mountain; he won his seat and, shortly afterward, his future wife when 20-year-old Maureen McTeer volunteered to work for him. The couple married in 1973 and have a two-year-old daughter. Maureen, who continues to use her maiden name and is pursuing her own career as a lawyer, campaigned vigorously for her husband during...
Seven houses of varying lack of distinction constituted the community. A dirt road meandered off toward the mountain where a bootleg still supplied whisky to the men of the countryside, and another dirt road ran to the creek. My cousin Kenneth and I would sit on the bank and fish with earthworms. One day we killed a copperhead which was basking on a rock near by. That was unusual...
...Carlos Romero Barceló, who vehemently denies that any wrong was done, derives from the killing of two young leftists by Commonwealth police. The police insist that the two agitators for Puerto Rican independence from the U.S. were about to blow up government radio towers at Cerro Maravilla, a mountain site about 50 miles from San Juan. Yet there are so many unanswered questions and contradictory versions of the police ambush that a U.S. Justice Department investigation is looking for possible violations of civil rights, a federal grand jury is probing the case, and relatives of Carlos Soto Arrivi...
...five members, Alejandro González Malavé, 21, was an undercover agent for the police. He and the two youths stopped a cab on the outskirts of Ponce last July 25. At gunpoint they forced the driver, Julio Ortiz Molina, to take them up a remote mountain road...
John McCutcheon--southern mountain music, Lowell House...