Word: mounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coordinate their planning and quickly, the report warns, California will be headed for harder times. "For we continue to have 1,500 new neighbors a day, a half a million a year; monstrous misplaced freeways; salty ground water supplies; park land scuffed and trampled like a pitcher's mound; a grey stink in the air. And like the great California grizzly, the slurb paws its way across that land of gold...
Handsome Profit. For Del Webb, who holds 46% of Webb Corp. stock, prosperity was slow in coming. Born in Fresno, Calif., he quit high school, became a bush-league pitcher until typhoid fever knocked him off the mound. Webb moved to Phoenix on doctor's orders, took up carpentry. Not until he was in his 405 did Webb get his big opportunity. He formed his own construction company, grew rich during World War II building military bases. After the war, Webb kept right on winning Government contracts, also moved into a variety of civilian enterprises, bought a share...
Stream of Treasure. Day after day, treasure poured from the mound, which is now known locally as "the mound that lays golden eggs." The biggest bowl, 8 in. high and 6 in. in diameter, shows a bird with animal legs and a mane. Other bowls are lively with prancing unicorns, bulls, rams, eagles, fish, a warrior in chain mail holding two leopards by their necks. The diggers turned up gold jewelry and gold household and toilet articles (ear cleaners, tweezers, needles), stone maceheads, terra-cotta figurines, a marble sword hilt inlaid with gold and lapis lazuli. Said one ragged workman...
Most of the treasures of Marlik Mound are already safe in the Iranian Archaeological Museum, but new finds always give Dr. Negahban something else to guard. By now he is surfeited with gold; he would rather dig up a clay tablet...
From the style and workmanship of the articles he has found, he has guessed that they date from about 1000 B.C., but he cannot be sure until he finds some written record connecting Marlik Mound with the known chronology of ancient Iran. Perhaps he will never be sure; at the beginning of the first millennium B.C., the whole Near East was in turmoil, with fierce barbarians making forays far into the Assyrian Empire. Little was written down during this dark...