Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they have always been powers in the land. Their rolling farm lands were bestowed on the family by Scotland's King William the Lion in the 13th century. Later, the Homes merged with the powerful Douglas clan and inherited their vast, 50,000-acre estates in the Douglas Valley, 80 miles west of Coldstream. For several centuries, the bold, battling lairds of Douglas and Home fought the English and rustled their cattle. The 4th Earl of Douglas was acclaimed by Falstaff in Henry IV as "that sprightly Scot of Scots that runs o'horseback up a hill perpendicular...
...podium. Small wonder. That's what he is. If anyone still wonders where the yellow went, Pepsodent's aggressive young comedian of 1938 is now one of the largest individual holders of raw acreage in Southern California. He has thousands of acres in the San Fernando Valley and hundreds in Palm Springs. He owns 421% of two TV stations in Colorado worth more than $10 million. He gives away more than $100,000 a year through The Bob and Dolores Hope Charitable Foundation. He has just given $300,000 for a new Bob Hope Theater at Southern Methodist...
...designed to hold an entire flood, only to check its water and divert it into a system of guide walls and a tunnel one-quarter mile long cut through a sandstone ridge. The water was finally discharged into the comparatively broad Wadi Mataha and Wadi Musa (Valley of Moses), where it would do no damage...
...lights in the Fields' place-and appliances and television and all the rest in the valley-may illuminate much that has lain dark and shadowy for the people of the Yaak. At the Fields' place, for example, the lights will brighten walls that are hung with old rifles, a couple of powder horns, pictures of relatives in high lace collars and, of course, a photo of the President of the U.S.-Abe Lincoln...
...across the reservoir. Spilling over the lip, the avalanche of water cascaded into a gorge leading to the nearby Piave River. It churned up tons of rock and mud, and hit Longarone. Then the flood bounced off a mountainside, turned around, hit Longarone again, and continued down the Piave Valley...