Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from a person's posture whether he or she has a back problem. "He looked at the way I sit in a chair and deduced, correctly, that I have had bouts of backache," she says. New York Bureau Chief Peter Stoler, who first injured his back in a mountain climbing accident a decade ago, interviewed numerous doctors, researchers and fellow sufferers. "There is more awareness of the problem today," says Stoler. "Fewer people are enduring in silence any more. More people are aware of the need to maintain a certain level of physical fitness, especially as they get older...
Absolutist that he is, he devises a plan "to settle the question of God once and for all." He will go into a labyrinthian mountain cave and simply sit until he receives a sign. What he gets instead is a toothache, which drives him out of hiding and into the care of Allison, a young schizophrenic who has escaped from a sanitarium and is living in a greenhouse right beneath the cave. Emerging from his vigil, Will Barrett goes through the glass roof and literally falls in love...
Bells pealed all across the congested city of Rio as John Paul's "Popemobile" arrived. At a jammed open-air Mass in sight of Sugar Loaf Mountain, the Pope made his way to the altar, hugging and kissing babies. Two days later, in São Paulo, the fervor of an open-air throng of 1.5 million brought tears to John Paul's eyes...
Americans saw their lives as an upward march toward the light. Or, as Columbia University Historian Henry Graff says, "they pictured America riding a train going up a mountain. It went round and round, but always onward and upward. The only interruptions were occasional tunnels-wars and depressions. It would suddenly go dark and then the light would stream in again...
...Pacific Railroad. He is hired on the spot, Kingston notes acidly, because "chinamen had a natural talent for explosions." Years of backbreaking, dangerous work follow, the continent is finally linked by rail, and then the grandfather and his fellow Chinese find they are no longer welcome on the Gold Mountain...