Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time away, Anna Mary Robertson Moses has painted nearly 700 pictures in the last seven years. Now, at 86, "Grandma" Moses is the best-known self-taught (or "primitive") painter in the U.S., and her gay little landscapes (mostly of her upstate New York farm in the Hoosik Valley) fetch an average $1,000. "I will say," she admitted, "that I have did remarkable for one of my years and experience...
...Peruvian Andes, not far from Lima, lies a haunted valley. To be caught there after dark, natives say, means almost certain death. If late afternoon finds a muleteer in the valley, he gets panicky and whips his beasts to escape lefore sunset. Workers on the Central Railway, which winds between the valley's forbidding mountain walls, insist on being taken home each night. Travelers through the valley dread to ride the railroad in the rainy season, for fear a landslide may maroon their train...
Best lead so far was a sinister group of female students who were seen on a neighboring hillside after the race signalling with colored blotters to accomplices in the valley below...
...this point there was plenty of time to avoid the mountains by an easy, gentle climb. But to show the wide margin of safety, Hughes flew the great plane into a steep-sided valley with mountains all around. At last he remarked calmly: "Now we'll take evasive action." The ship roared up in a steep, climbing turn to clear the rocks...
...narrative of the violent Kentuckian's search for his love has the poetic improbability of something that might actually have happened. He finds her and joins her tribe, the Piegans, in the mountain valley of the Teton River, "winding, busy but unhurried, with a mind and time to have a look at things as it went along." Living with the Indians suits Boone. "A man could sit and let time run on while he smoked or cut on a stick with nothing nagging him and the squaws going about their business and the young ones playing, making out that...