Word: everest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...area of at least four towering volcanoes, some of which may still be showing signs of activity. They are dominated by gigantic Nix Olympica, with an upper rim estimated to be more than three times as tall as Mt. Everest, the earth's highest peak...
Particularly for people who earn more than the Lundmark family, income taxes are as steeply progressive as Everest. On a salary of $10,000 a Swede pays 43% of his income in national, local and old-age pension taxes. On $20,000 he pays 53%, and on $40,000 his combined levy is a brutal 63%. Loopholes are almost nonexistent, and deductions are rare. Corporate income taxes, which average 53%, are less severe because, unlike individuals, companies can deduct from their national tax the amount they pay in local taxes. Even so, Sweden's leading business magazine, Veckans...
Today the Sutherland voice towers like a natural wonder, unique as Niagara or Mount Everest. Sills' voice is made of more ordinary stuff; what she shares with Callas is an abandon in hurling herself into fiery emotional music and a willingness to sacrifice vocal beauty for dramatic effect. Sutherland deals in vocal velvet, Sills in emotional dynamite. Sutherland's voice is much larger, but its plush monochrome robs it of carrying power in dramatic moments. Sills' multicolored voice, though smaller, projects better and has a cutting edge that can slice through the largest orchestra and chorus. Sometimes...
...normal plane that will get you there in half the time," a French aerospace official said. Why should we want that even if it is a normal plane? That is a hard question to answer. I flew supersonically this week, and it seemed very much like getting to Everest in an armchair...
...Love," the pamphlet claims, is notan unselfish emotion but a response to the challenge and "psychic masochism" of the love-power relationship. Winning a girl is "like conquering Everest or reaching the moon," the pamphlet explains. "Why do you suppose the moon-that big bubble in the sky-has such a special significance to 'lovers' anyway...