Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old ancestral home in the mountains outside Beirut that Bashir Gemayel received us for the interview. From the windows of the pink stone house there is a breathtakingly beautiful view of the mountain slopes with their olive groves and grapevines among gray boulders. But Maronite Christians like the Gemayels did not settle in Lebanon because of its beauty. They chose those mountains because of security, a rugged area ideal for defense, where a lonely Christian community could defend itself and survive in a sea of sometimes hostile Muslim neighbors. The Maronites survived without ever being reduced to minority status...
...perhaps the most beautiful ride I have ever taken, along winding mountain roads and through tunnels carved into the hills. All around us and below, the lights of Monaco sparkled on in the early morning darkness, like so many precious stones in the folds of a rich, dark velvet blanket. I thought of the princess, tucked safely away in her palace in this fairy tale land, and I thought of the words "happily ever after...
...wooden casket was then placed on an army gun carriage and taken in a slow moving procession to the cemetery A 21 gun salute echoed across the mountain peaks of central Lebanon as the 34 year old slam leader was lowered into his grave to the drumbeat of an army band
...avoid Clay when he's hung over. You go in at your own risk. He butts his head against the fence so hard sometimes that we have to go out and calm him down." Usually, that is enough to sober up Clay Henry, a 130-lb. black mountain goat...
There once was a family of Hungarian frogs that went on a hopping holiday to the mountains of Transylvania. The mountain forests were aswarm with wolves and wildcats, so the mother frog warned her children to keep quiet. Her youngest son defiantly boasted, "I am proud to be a frog, and it is in the nature of a frog to croak." He hopped off one day to the bank of a pond and croaked so loudly and so long that a mountain goat spotted him and killed him. "I told him not to croak," the mother frog mourned...