Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ants on the Mountain. As usual, the state of war brought with it a tightening of nerves. In response to radio and telephone alarms in Indianapolis, Ind., policemen took to their squad cars in search of a black panther reputedly terrorizing their city with mournful rapacious howls. The search was called off only when the menace was identified as a mooning but amiable Newfoundland...
...Italy, a species of ants known as Myrmica scabrinodis, which for centuries past at this season have come to mate in nuptial flight and die by the billions near the shrine of the Madonna of the Mountain of the Ants, largely forsook their Madonna and swarmed and died instead at a Communist festival in a village on the slope. "It is," cried one Communist, "the effect of the Pope's excommunication decree...
...party reached a shallow ledge on the almost-vertical face of Dent du Geant. While the other three waited below, McNear continued up the face and hammered a thin piton--a metal spike commonly used by mountain-climbers for support--into a crack in the granite rock. Then he fastened his rope to the piton and continued up the wall...
...with him go to work on a street corner preaching, answering questions, passing out pamphlets. This project has been especially effective in reclaiming backsliders. As a result of one such mission, says Bishop O'Hara, he last year confirmed 23 members of a single family in the Ozark Mountain country...
...became county school superintendent, later quit to concentrate on farming and writing short stories and poetry (Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow). This week, burly Jesse Stuart, now 42, published a new book (The Thread That Runs So True, Scribners; $3) to tell what life as a Kentucky mountain teacher was like...