Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reporters who drove up the potholed, narrow mountain roads of the withdrawal route to see Peres at the front were told by Israeli soldiers to wear flak jackets. With reason: every day last week there were new reports of violence as Israeli convoys 30 or 40 vehicles long carried south everything from prefabricated sheds to concrete roadblocks. Already land mines and sniper attacks by Arab guerrillas have claimed as many as five Israeli lives. The Israel Defense Forces say that they have killed a like number of terrorists. Shi'ite Muslim Leader Nabih Berri, who is also the Lebanese Cabinet...
...population had dwindled from 5,000 in the 1880s to 500 in the late 1960s, when political activists and dropouts looking for a Rocky Mountain high started moving in. Native Elvira Wunderlich, 70, remembers the hippies as "just a bunch of trust funders and freeloaders." But the newcomers brought along their political savvy and quickly commandeered the town council from the locals, known as the elks (because of their frequent meetings at the Elks Club). Says former Mayor Jerry Rosenfeld, 44, a Denver dropout from the Eugene McCarthy campaign: "We were going to build a utopia here...
...film festival and decided to buy a house five years ago. "It's like a time warp." Ever since the first ski trails and lifts were built in 1972, developers have eyed the town's secret chic for a major resort. In 1979 Telluride Ski Corp. (Telco) announced upscale Mountain Village: 92 acres of residences, hotels, a golf course and new intermediate runs, necessary to attract family-oriented baby boomers. The whole operation was to be built six miles and a mountainside away from Telluride, linked to the town by a high- speed European-style gondola...
...rhetoric, the Jewish student sought relief in science from "all the dogmas, all the unproved affirmations, and all the imperatives" of Fascism. His comrade in this search for verifiable values was Sandro, a peasant youth who later became a celebrated resistance fighter. Sandro dragged Levi on exhausting treks through mountain passes, up rock cliffs and over slopes of ice. "He felt the need," Levi says, "to prepare himself (and to prepare me) for an iron future, drawing closer month by month." In 1944 Sandro was executed by the Fascists, who left his body in the road. Levi's superb portrait...
There have been times when the weather socked the pilot in and the mail run had to be postponed for up to five days. But this day was so clear you could almost see tomorrow. The Salmon River Mountains were below. The way the snow caught the sun, the snow looked like diamond dust. Off the starboard wing the Sawtooth Mountain Range made a ragged platinum horizon. Down canyons, through passes, over peaks, the Cessna with the skis affixed to its wheels threw a shadow that caused elk, long-horned sheep and mountain goats to bolt. On the control panel...