Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alumni and alumnae of Brent School, in the Philippine mountain city of Baguio, were in for some cultural shocks. Having traveled 7,000 or 8,000 miles to celebrate the 75th anniversary of a school most of them had not seen for more than 40 years, they found something quite different from the tight little American island they had once known...
...province of Papua New Guinea laid down their bows and arrows a month ago and set out along narrow jungle trails, carrying an 18-ft.-high wooden cross. Whenever they came to a river they could not ford, they stopped and built a bridge. Other Papua New Guineans braved mountain passes 11,000 ft. above sea level to make their long journey. Why had so many thousands trekked so far to stand in ankle-deep mud on a rain-soaked field in the town of Mount Hagen? One tribesman, in a three-cornered hat made from human hair...
...border. It is difficult to imagine the battlefield as it appeared 30 years ago. The French chose Dien Bien Phu because its strategic location seemed to make it the ideal place to cut Viet Minh supply lines and thus to harass Giap's troops into submission. Protected by mountains on all sides, it seemed impregnable. Against heavy odds, Ho's Viet Minh army laid siege for 55 days. Finally, on May 7, 1954, after hauling whole batteries of heavy artillery to seemingly impossible mountain redoubts and tunneling to within yards of the garrison positions, the Viet Minh staged...
Most major stars have a book in them, and with the aid of a ghostwriter, they coax it out. MacLaine, writing without help (although she is extensively edited) has produced three already, and is at work on another. The first, Don't Fall Off the Mountain, (1970), was part career review, part travelogue, with flashes of mysticism. She followed this bestseller with You Can Get Therefrom Here (1975), a reflection on her political activities and her tour of China that struck some critics as naive; it sold less well. MacLaine's biggest success as an author...
...remote, Rowse contends, and all he has done is remove the "negative superfluous difficulties." Says he: "I want to keep William Shakespeare alive for the future of the whole wide world. My whole idea is to help the reader without getting him bogged down or buried under a mountain of footnotes...