Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tune, and the President drove off accompanied by his personal secretaries Marguerite ("Missy") Le Hand and Grace Tully, past the Foundation where crippled children were lined up in wheelchairs to wave to him, on up the road to the Little White House on the slopes of Pine Mountain where Daisy McAffee was cooking his dinner...
...Kassa and General Mariotti thought alike. Before the General was able to unlimber his camel guns, volley upon volley of rifle fire echoed from the cliffs. Skirmish lines went out, runners raced for munitions, support. Colonel Belli, the General's second-in-command, ran forward to help the mountain battery, got bullets in a hand and knee...
...deep gorge rang with battle. Three other Italian officers were wounded but fought on while the Ethiopians stubbornly resisted the Italian advance. At nightfall, with the battle line 7,000 feet up in the mountains, the Ethiopian line suddenly broke. Through field glasses General Mariotti could see the Ethiopians scrambling like goats still higher up the mountain, disappearing to the south. At dawn the Askaris rallied for a grandiloquent charge with bayonets and curved swords. That afternoon Azbi was captured...
...glory Old de Bono is now replaced by the Army's idol and the King's close friend. Marshal Pietro Badoglio, greatest of Italy's surviving World War commanders and in 1928, when Mussolini had been Dictator for six years, created Marquis of the Sabotino, the mountain he captured in August 1916 during the Battle of Gorizia. In November 1917 he was made the public goat of Italy's most inglorious rout at Caporetto, but within the Army his Kudos as a commander did not evaporate and he became sole Sub-Chief-of-Staff under Italian...
Chunky Bob Jones at center completes the list and holds besides the honor of being the only lineman who is under six feet in height. The others run from Glaffney's six feet flat to Maser's man-mountain six feet six and 210 pounds...