Word: mt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This Inglorious Thing." The next day in a News editorial he complained bitterly about "this inglorious thing [which] has disfigured my view [of] the snowy heads of Longs and neighboring Mt. Meeker...
...first time in its history, a woman was elected to an office in the Legal Aid Bureau. "In elections held last Wednesday, Miss Mary M. O'Connell 2L of Jeanette, Pennsylvania, and 22 1/2 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge, was named Junior Director...
...overwhelming lassitude and an indifference to danger. Such a fate may well have overcome Britain's George Leigh-Mallory and Andrew C. Irvine, when the swirling mountain mists cut them off from view in 1924 as they struggled up the last 1,000 feet of towering, forbidding Mt. Everest.* Why do men tackle a forbidding mountain? Mallory had his own understated explanation: "Because it's there...
When the settlers reach Oregon, the blood really starts to flow: a pitched battle in Portland, a running fight up the Columbia River, an ambuscade on the slopes of Mt. Hood. Having eliminated most of the badmen on the Pacific Coast, Stewart and Kennedy start taking potshots at each other, and stage their final death grapple in a mountain torrent. At intervals in the gunfire, Stewart and Gambler Rock Hudson make sheep's eyes at Julia Adams and Lori Nelson. Funnyman Stepin' Fetchit, after a movie absence of 15 years, is back in Bend of the River...
Over Reno's police radio one afternoon last week came a routine alarm: "Housebreak at Mt. Rose and Forest." Within minutes, the cops were pulling up at a massive, castlelike mansion owned by La Verne Redfield, 54, an obscure stock and real-estate operator who was locally known to be wealthy and somewhat eccentric. Events quickly proved that he was all of that and then some...