Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...military men the poser is: "Will Hitler fight when it becomes definitely certain that he is losing that race?" The dynamics of dictatorship are such that few who have studied Fascism and its leaders can envision sexless, restless, instinctive Adolf Hitler rounding out a mellow middle age in his mountain chalet at Berchtesgaden while a satisfied German people drink beer and sing folk songs. There is no guarantee that the have-not nations will go to sleep when they have taken what they now want from the haves. To those who watched the closing events of the year it seemed...
...Barbacena it began the laborious ascent of the single-track over the Manti-queiras. Near the town of Stio came catastrophe. Again, someone had blundered, for thundering down the mountain through signals came a heavily laden freight. Headlight to headlight the roaring freight and the snorting passenger train met. They disintegrated over the grade like kindling. Soon fire crackled through the broken sticks and torn bodies...
...heart of this new country is the mountain-girdled upper valley of the Yangtze, an area approximately 1,000 miles from East to West and 1,300 miles from North to South. Below it lie the steaming jungles of Burma and French Indo-China, west of it lie the mountain fastnesses of Tibet, northwestward the desert plateaus of Turkestan (Sinkiang) and Mongolia...
Because the aristocratic von Trapps had a good deal of time on their hands, and because Father & Mother von Trapp were both good amateur musicians, the family developed the pleasant habit of making music together. On crisp Tirolese evenings they all gathered in the hall of their mountain castle to sing and play hoary Latin masses and lusty Tirolese folk songs...
...person who likes long-lasting excitement and an endurance test, there are the long trails with their mountain climbing and down-hill running...