Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Novices rode a ski tow to take their first headers on a broad, snow-padded slope within easy stretcher-bearing distance of the hotel. But Kanonen (experts), led by Skimaster Allais, climbed by ski to the Christ of the Andes for a Schuss of six glorious miles tc Portillo. Or they took a thundering trail three precipitous miles to Juncal where railway handcars pumped them back to Portillo...
Ecuador, and Peru. Throughout the Spanish world plain people felt that they had lost one who had given them not joy, but a bitter and glorious excitement, a pageant of death and of courage, death's enemy...
...also have to learn more about the nature of its Communist antagonists, who in Italy used different methods from the frank totalitarianism of their eastern European comrades. The success of the methods is reflected in a dispatch from TIME Correspondent Emmet Hughes, after a trip through northern Italy, whose glorious cities have become the Communists' fiercest strongholds. His report...
...Lord Duke. As if in a nostalgic effort to recapture the glorious days of imperial and Tory Britain, when life was ordered and largely predictable, his listeners were neatly sorted on hierarchical lines. With Churchill on the speaker's platform was the tenth in the line of the victor of Blenheim ("My Lord Duke" Churchill called him), cool, calm and ruddy. Beside him sat his Duchess, magnificently hatted with two feathers sweeping from under a black brim...
...centuries of Indian history empire after empire had risen in a glorious blaze of peacock plumes and glinting spears only to founder in dark blood and ignominy. Last week British rule in India was ending; surprised applause followed its dinner jacket out the door...