Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faces of the stodgy, soot-laden houses of the little mining town of Mountain Ash were ugly and dirty as ever. But the faces of the miners, and their families, were scrubbed clean and the mines were idle. From the town rose loved Welsh songs like Jenny Jones, Men of Harlech and the Welsh anthem, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau-meaning Land of My Fathers...
...years, in one Indian court after another, he fought to prove his identity; each time, Bibhabati-now 56 and no longer shy-fought against him. Finally the case reached the Privy Council, the British Empire's highest court of appeal. For four weeks the Council sifted a musty mountain of testimony, boiled the issue down to one question: did it rain in Darjeeling on May 9, 1909? Last week the Privy Council decided that it had. It ruled in Roy's favor, restored to him the privileges and wealth that rightfully belong to the Kumar of Bhowal...
...little mountain land, there was no feeling of greatness and only a little pride, but there was plenty of thankfulness and happiness. Fields were heavy with ripening grain. Throughout the smiling countryside, barelegged children, plump and rosy, waved to sleek, swift trains running on Swiss-clocklike schedule. In the cities, there was industrial peace, assured by the no-strike agreement which the big unions had pledged after winning substantial gains in pay and working conditions...
...Swiss knew that even the white Alps throw dark shadows. Swiss engineers were pouring more concrete into the mountain strongholds built during World War II. The Government voted 18,000,000 francs ($4,500,000) for atomic research...
...Biological warfare," writes Merck with detachment, "may be defined as the use of bacteria, fungi, viruses, rickettsias (e.g., typhus fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever), and toxic agents derived from living organisms. . . to produce death or disease in men, animals or plants." Under this broad directive, the scientists went to work...