Word: mountaintop
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Children adored him; so did the mangy, half-starved dogs that wandered with him through the steep, cobblestoned streets of mountaintop La Paz. For 20 years, this tall foreigner with the long blond beard had gone about the Indian capital selling pencils. One morning two years ago, he was found dead in the streets-of a heart attack, the coroner said...
...Mountaintop. He withdrew into scholarship. Having mastered Yiddish and Hebrew, he delved deep into Jewish culture, became a Zionist. In 1922, after being shipwrecked on the way, he landed in Palestine. There he decided to stay for the rest of his life. In 1925, when Jewish and British notables gathered on Mount Scopus to dedicate Hebrew University, he was made its first chancellor...
...ever so desperately to resist the bad man. She tries - and fails provocatively, in a low-cut bodice - first in the ranch house, and again on the rush-fringed riverbank, and several times in her own dimly lighted bunkhouse, and. even as she is dying, on a sun-scorched mountaintop. The audience eventually learns (thanks to the Johnston office) that Illicit Love doesn't really pay in the long run, but for about 134 minutes it has appeared to be loads...
...James's Varieties of Religious Experience) rests on an appeal to a Higher Power (God, or whatever Force the member prefers) for strength to resist the compulsion to drink. Founder Bill, describing his "spiritual awakening," said: "I felt lifted up, as though the great clean wind of a mountaintop blew through and through." Psychiatrists, who use much fancier words, describe the process as the "use of a religious or spiritual force to attack the fundamental narcissism of the alcoholic...
When Albert C. Childs first went to Mount Wilson in 1922, the mountaintop was owned by James H. Holmes, whose daughter Childs had met and married in Hawaii. The observatory, for which the Carnegie Institution had leased 15 acres for $1 a year, was required by its lease to keep its grounds open to visitors. But the toll road and the hotel atop the peak had yet to make a profit. Said Childs: "This place ought to carry itself...