Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largest Christian group and the one that has dominated Lebanese politics is the Maronites, with some 500,000 members. A rugged mountain folk and the most martial of Lebanon's Christians, the Maronites take Suleiman Franjieh their name from John Maron, a learned monk who was Patriarch of Antioch in the 8th century. The Crusades brought the Maronites closer to Rome, and in the 1700s they were formally united, thus reinforcing their long and dearly held association with the West...
Those bamboo poles and an abandoned pair of snowshoes were the only traces late last week of the celebrated mountain climber. He was reported missing and feared lost on the west face of North America's highest peak, Mount McKinley in Alaska. His disappearance came just days after a spectacular success: on Feb. 12, his 43rd birthday, Uemura had become the first climber to make a solo ascent of the 20,320-ft. peak in midwinter...
Radio contact with Uemura abruptly ceased the next day, possibly because subzero temperatures had weakened the batteries of his Citizens Band radio. On Feb. 16 the mountaineer was spotted by a glacier pilot near a snow-hole bivouac at 16,400 ft. Uemura waved, a prearranged signal that all was well. When he failed to reappear by Feb. 19, rescue efforts were begun, but they were frustrated by thick clouds, high winds and blinding snow. Two of Uemura's friends, Climbers Jim Wickwire and Eiho Otani, were dropped onto the mountain by helicopter at the 14,300-ft. level...
...excited talk," "loud laughter," and "disruptive groans" one so often hears in establishments like Tommy's. Really the help should keep "the clatter of dishes" behind closed doors. And the teachers? Well "Harvard Parent" concedes that "the gods and goddesses who collect full salaries must be left to their mountain-top citadels": there is no alternative but to leave the dirty work to those of us who Labour in the valley of diminutive wages. But we sweating apprentices must not reveal to our clients that there may be some loose cogs in the grand machine. Certainly our "own eccentricities...
That he was, and for him the World Cup circuit stretched out far ahead. As he left Sarajevo for Copper Mountain, Colo., to train for a downhill next week, he had nothing unkind to say about anyone, not even Klammer. But, of course, he did have a breezy last word. "I could be in this game a long time now." -By John Skow...