Word: terrains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seat in the lower house. Both, of course, ran as Democrats. Dick has said that people wonder why they insist on sticking to a party label that was such a liability in Oregon. He explains: "Evidently martyrdom suits our personalities. Maurine and I enjoy being caribou in timberwolf terrain. It gives us a sense of high adventure and derring-do." During legislative sessions in Salem, the Neubergers lived in a motel and built up a commendable liberal record (and a basic research for magazine articles) as an aggressive, incorruptible legislative team...
Confidence. In Paris, as he had promised he would, Mendès-France got the Assembly to schedule debate on the Paris agreements the week of Dec. 13. Then he plunged into what the French call the terrain de l'embuscade (ambush country) of French politics-the budget. Most of France's 19 postwar governments have been trapped and brought down not on the high ground of national or foreign policy, but in the tricky thickets of the budget...
...logic of terrain still prevails: from the Rockies to the Cascades, the Inland Empire, which revolves around Spokane, is a trans-mountain stranger to the populous cities of coastal Washington and Oregon, to the potato farmers of south Idaho and to the ranchers of Montana's eastern plains. In lusty growth (its population has swelled by 51% since 1940), it is building new towns and industry on a solid base of natural treasures: rich grainland including the nation's top wheat-producing county (Whitman County, Wash.), lush wild-grass valleys providing year-round range for sheep and cattle...
...businesslike officials gave each man a number and a map. One by one, as the numbers were called, each man trotted off by himself, whipped out a small compass, lined up his map and raced into the tangled underbrush. For the next three hours, they pounded across rough, trackless terrain, climbed steep hills, forded icy streams, slogged through black swamps. Every couple of miles they passed through carefully spotted check points to prove that they were sticking to a prearranged course. If they read the maps well enough, were good enough woodsmen, and if their legs and lungs held...
...Favorites. Scandinavians take a special delight in the threefold challenge of orienteering: the struggle against natural obstacles, the physical competition against fellow racers, and the intellectual exercise of trying to choose the best route across strange terrain. But most of all, they relish the idea that in any race it is almost impossible to pick a favorite. The fastest runners can get bogged down in unexpectedly sloppy going; the cleverest map readers can lose precious minutes searching for diabolically hidden check points...