Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity's first game in Bermuda will be a warm-up match against the West-mount Club of Montreal. In the first round of the official tournament, the Crimson will face a traditionally powerful Princeton squad which defeated the varsity last fall...
...thought that Taruc had ceased to be a Communist or had seen the light about democracy; rather, Communist strategy now was to abandon guerrilla warfare in favor of political infiltration. Taruc's field commanders got down to cases with a team of army negotiators at Mount Banahaw, 40 miles south of Manila. They offered to deposit their arms in mountain hideouts guarded by their own men, and to surrender the arms after they were convinced of the government's sincerity. In return, they asked a general amnesty and presidential clemency for Huks convicted of crimes. Army Chief...
...rule the country, the officers first set up a temporary military junta, then ordered an election for Congressmen who would choose a President. One candidate was a brooding, ulcer-afflicted lawyer named Dumarsais Estime, son of black peasant parents who lived in the voodoo-haunted pine forests near Mount La Selle. His strongly anti-mulatto position made him the idol of the blacks, and won him the election...
...signs of a real Wagner boom, either in the U.S. or abroad. The favorite operas, Lohengrin, Tannhduser and Tristan are lucky to get three or four performances a month at La Scala, Paris and London. The 13-hour Ring cycle (Rheingold, Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung) is all but impossible to mount in small theaters, gets its chief performances nowadays at the Wagner shrine in Bayreuth. Like many German opera houses, the Vienna Staatsoper was bombed out, will not attempt the Ring cycle until rebuilding is completed in 1956. Covent Garden's policy: no Ring until another Flagstad turns...
...slopes of Dartmouth's golf course at Woodstock, Vermont, and of neighboring Mount Etna were the athletic focus of the weekend, with slalom and cross country races on Friday, downhill and jumping on Saturday...