Word: mount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stands, a famous drugstore that does more than $1,000,000 worth of business annually and the highest per capita ownership of backyard swimming pools in the state?all because it happens to be handy to the interstate highway that vacationers travel to the Badlands, the Black Hills and Mount Rushmore. Now a local construction firm has postponed building a $300,000, 46-unit motel, and Herb Pantke, 63-year-old attendant at one of the gas stations, has become the first person in town to lose his job because of the energy crisis; the station had to close...
...approach to the sun, there has been time for elaborate preparation. Kohoutek may well be the most intensely scrutinized celestial object in the history of astronomy; it will be tracked and studied by thousands of scientists and an incredible array of instruments ranging from the 200-in. telescope on Mount Palomar to the sophisticated devices aboard Skylab and other spacecraft...
...from 100 to 3650 per cent. The peasant had to sell everything he owned--his water buffalo, old heirlooms, sometimes even his children--to keep his head above water. He hitched his wife and children to his plow to replace the water buffalo, but still his debts continued to mount. And if he missed a payment on his taxes or loans, he was tossed into a colonial jail and beaten...
...this year's Dartmouth basketball team is anything like last season's--and there are indications that it could be worse--Satch Sanders's Crimson may not even have to mount their steeds, much less make a charge, at the Big Green tonight in Hanover...
...Bond used a Rogallo in his latest flick to swoop down on the bad guy, a far more spectacular flight was made recently when Jim Weir, 26, a gardener, and Burke Ewing, a 19-year-old student, both from San Diego, jumped from the top of 10,830-ft. Mount San Jacinto above Palm Springs. Recalls Weir: "I was in a screaming dive toward the mountain and there was nothing I could do about it. That was it, the end. But just as quickly as the drop started, it stopped. I seemed to have control of the kite...