Word: hilltop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Late in July, ailing Sir Stafford Cripps went to Switzerland for medical treatment. In a hilltop sanatorium near Zurich he embarked on the "ordered life" prescribed by his physician: that meant no dispatches from London...
...Potenza is a sunbaked community in southern Italy on a hilltop overlooking the Basento valley near the instep of the Italian boot. During the war, the U.S. Army had a rest center there for its troops. Today few foreigners enter this desolate, impoverished region whose capital is Potenza...
Coyotes, says Author Dobie, know how to play dead, disguise themselves, hunt in groups; they are said to climb to the same hilltop every evening to sing; they play jokes, trick other animals, imitate the sounds they hear, and they learn man's ways with incredible rapidity. Fences cannot keep these sly relations of the dog and the wolf out of a sheep range or a chicken yard: some Southwest natives believe that they talk to the fences and the fences open up and let them through. Barbed-wire fences had some trouble understanding them at first...
...sunny hilltop near Alexandria, Va., 85 Episcopal bishops, ministers and laymen assembled one day last week to consider a major crisis of their church. It was not a lack of members; the church's enrollment had ballooned 130% since 1900. But there were no longer enough shepherds to minister to this record flock. In the same 49 years the number of active ministers had grown by a mere...
...Cardiff draper, Dr. Follick was born in Wales where every schoolboy is expected to learn the spelling of such names as Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogery-chwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. At 17, he left Wales for Australia. Perhaps Down Under he heard about the New Zealand hilltop called Taumatawhakatangihangako-auauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu. He developed an English alphabet containing...