Word: mt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wadsworth is probably a little overenthusiastic. Furthermore, Turkey already has 367 miles of Soviet frontier to defend. If Iran falls behind the Iron Curtain, 290 miles more of Soviet frontier (plus a likely invasion route, past Mt. Ararat) will be added to Turkey's defense problem. From a military point of view, Eisenhower's right flank is certainly stuck away the hell and gone out into enemy territory...
Just before Christmas 1758, George Washington, 26, late colonel of militia in the French & Indian War, went home to Mt. Vernon. He had fought well; now he could settle down to the life he was meant for, the easy rounds of a well-to-do Virginia planter. He married a comely widow named Martha Custis, took on the responsibility of two stepchildren, and began thinking about improving his estate and buying more land...
Wine from Lisbon. Pastoral, warm, gracious-so flowed life in Mt. Vernon. Washington overextended himself in land and fell in debt for a while. But he skillfully rotated his crops at Mt. Vernon, grew wheat when others were growing tobacco, and kept on prospering. He was able to ride in a coach & six and to lay down in his cellar pipes of fine Madeira and the "best Lisbon wine...
...Falcon-eyed," upright and just, he stalks the pages of Asch's novel in many moods: rapt and docile before God's voice in the burning bush, prophetic and lordly as he pronounces plagues on Egypt, exalted as he receives the Ten Commandments on Mt. Sinai, toweringly wrathful as he descends after 40 days and nights to find the children of Israel cavorting idolatrously before the golden calf. Humbly indomitable in faith, he is most moving when he prays for his wayward and wandering people...
Tonight's route will be the game as last year's, according to head cheerleader David Cabot '53. It will carry the crowd out of the Yard and down Holyoke Street, up Mt. Auburn and down DeWolfe Street to the Houses. The march will then go up Mill Street between Winthrop and Lowell, past the Winthrop-Kirkland-Eliot triangle and around the corner to the I.A.B...