Word: mt
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...panel from a. comic strip. The similarity is probably no accident. Things were speeding up around Pompeii. Even resort life was getting pretty hectic. Old standards were being abandoned, the new was hastily sought, and there was a sense of permanent danger in the air. The gods, speaking through Mt. Vesuvius, had begun to grumble...
Hero Worship. In Kansas City, Mo., after falling from a 20-ft. rock wall, Robert Thompson, 41, was treated for eye and back injuries, explained that he had been so impressed by the conquest of Mt. Everest that he wanted to do some climbing himself...
...main Mau Mau forces are concentrated in two guerrilla armies, lurking in the forested highlands : one under "General Russia," a scar-faced ex-schoolteacher whose real name is Dedam Kimathi (TIME, Feb. 23); the other under "General China," an elusive desperado who dominates Mt. Kenya. One Mau Mau band, 150 strong and heavily armed, last week at tacked the trading center of Kanderudu, repulsed a British patrol and seized its transport. The soldiers called for air support, and counterattacked. Result: 40 Mau Mau were killed (ten by an African trooper who kept firing his Bren gun even after...
...build a $559,791,000 multi-purpose dam that would back up the waters of the Snake River into a lake 93 miles long and flood Idaho Power's dam sites. The entire cost for power, flood control and irrigation of 192,000 acres of land around Mt. Home, Idaho would total $842,591,000. While Interior sought funds from Congress to start work, Chapman put pressure on the Federal Power Commission to pigeonhole Idaho Power's application...
Later police found Casey and Cunningham sitting in the back seat of Scalese's Buick on Mt. Auburn St. Casey's right shirtsleeve was covered with blood, and he admitted the fight, saying, "Jimmy and I did most of the beating," police testified...