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Word: cordia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...cuts high in the mountains, the "overburden" piles up -until the rains come. Then the mud and boulders roar downhill, snapping big trees like toothpicks and tumbling onto farms, gardens and homes in the hollows below. "I just dread the day," says Alice Slone, principal of a school in Cordia, Ky., "when I'll pick up the phone and find one of the children has been buried in a strip mine slide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Price of Strip Mining | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

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