Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Honey is a tiny village in the pine forests that cover the high sierra between Hidalgo and Puebla. Last spring there was peace in Honey. Visitors found none of the tight sullenness sometimes evident in villages around Mexico City. The people were relaxed, easygoing, contented...
...caught up with Tyrus R. ("Ty")Cobb. High in California's Sierra, the 60-year-old Georgia Peach was driving with his onetime housekeeper, 38-year-old Lucille La Pointe. When she was nabbed for a traffic violation, Cobb started riding the justice of the peace from the sidelines. The justice blew up, jailed Cobb for "being drunk on the public highway," later released him on $25 bail...
...Peru before the Spanish Conquest, were altitude-wise. When they colonized newly conquered territory, they always sent immigrants accustomed to its altitude. When they warred against coastal peoples, they maintained two highland armies. Each campaigned in the lowlands for only two months, was relieved, and returned to the high sierra to breathe its thin air and recuperate...
...Reproduction. Soon after the conquest the Spaniards had altitude trouble. At first they planned to make their headquarters at Jauja (11,000 feet), but they moved to coastal Lima because "neither in the town nor in any part of the sierra can pigs, horses or birds be bred...
...artists had done their best. Surrealist Max Ernst contributed a waxy "translation" of Utah's Bryce Canyon. Jane Berlandina's abstractions of the Sierra peaks were appropriately lonely and cool, inappropriately pretty. David Fredenthal had taken a pack trip into the gouged, crumpled high country of Glacier National Park. Dong Kingman had made Grand Teton Mountain burst like a cloud-breathing dragon out of the plain, but the mile-deep solidity of its pine-covered ribs had escaped...