Word: allalin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Swiss Alps, near the little village of Saas-Almagell, engineers and workmen have labored for five years on the Mattmark dam. To visitors, the site of the work camp looked dangerous, for above it rose a sheer mountain wall, topped by the icy lip of the six-mile-long Allalin glacier. But the workmen on the dam were assured it was by no means as menacing as it looked...
Glaciers move only inches a year and, besides, on orders of the Swiss government, Geologist Auguste Lombard last year examined Allalin and reported that the great ice sheet was retracting, not expanding...
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