Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frisky, furry young pandas were fresh from the mountain forests of Szechwan Province. They were presents to the New York Zoo from Madame Chiang Kaishek. In 1941, the zoo named them Pan-Dee and Pan-Dah. They appeared to be in the pink of health. But the great question was: were they a pair or were they a couple? It was hoped they would turn out to be a couple-but nobody knew for sure...
Kennedy, a former Williams man and veteran of the 10th Mountain Division, added that the Ski Club's huts on the Pinkham Notch road and on Mt. Washington would be ready for the use of all club members as well as the team before the first snows...
...clear. Eagles wheeled overhead against the white clouds, their shadows crossing palaces and hovels, crumbling temples and Western buildings. The city of Seoul (pronounced soul), home of a million people, was 550 years old. Yet the Americans felt like discoverers last week as they explored Korea's mountain-ringed capital...
...late, war's austerity and Senhor Lage's death had dimmed hei glory. Last week, weary of obscurity, Gabriella Besanzoni announced that, because she was grateful to God, she would have Mass said on the pinnacle of Corcovado Mountain...
Empress Dowager Sadako of Japan ("the Mother of God"), 61, was reported to have moved from Tokyo to Tomoemon Kondo Villa Karuisawa, a mountain resort somewhat nearer Heaven...