Word: ruggedness
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Covering nearly half the surface of South America, and with half the continent's 140 million population, Brazil was the world's fourth largest nation (after Russia, China, Canada) until the U.S. added Alaska. With no deserts, tundra or rugged mountains, the nation is 80% rolling plateau, has...
The message to Rockford was typical -and so was the response. In 1961, Barry Morris Goldwater, 52, traveling tirelessly about the land to champion the cause of the Republican Party, U.S. conservatism and his own variety of rugged individualism, is the hottest political figure this side of Jack Kennedy.
Rugged Rancher Winthrop Rockefeller, 49, likes to do things the hard way: he worked as a field hand for Humble Oil, a family firm, joined the army as a private (he left as a lieutenant colonel), divorced his wife Bobo when five years of separation and litigation ended in a...
What worries Krim and the F.L.N. is that guerrilla forces traditionally disintegrate unless they are under constant military pressure. Should fighting cease, the rugged F.L.N. bands will be tempted to lay down their arms and abandon their mountain hideouts, thus leaving the F.L.N. without a military force in being. To...
They had reason. Ever since the first game was played at Bournemouth, England, in 1876, water polo has ranked as one of the roughest, toughest sports. Played originally by porpoiselike 250 pounders, it was a game in which quarter was never asked, rarely given. Bloody noses and punctured eardrums (from...