Word: mount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Round Number Seven the tension will mount...
...front line of Gwill York, Mleczko, Howard and Jenny Stone would have broken the game wide open in the rest of the first half if it were not for Marsh's marvelous goaltending. She and the Wheatie defense turned back several Crimson charges, although Wheaton failed to mount an offense...
Rather than subside, adulation of Elvis seems to mount. Caroline Kennedy, writing as a freelance reporter for Rolling Stone about the scene at Graceland before the funeral, described a conversation with Charlie Hodge, Presley's guitarist; he tearfully told how he had "been with Elvis all day. Just this afternoon I shaved his sideburns. It was the least I could do." Even today, souvenir hunters pull blades of grass from the lawn around the mausoleum housing the coffins of Elvis and his mother, who died in 1958. One night police arrested three men for trespassing on cemetery grounds. Alarmed...
...dawn the worshipers began gathering in a sunbathed clearing in the wooded hills north of Budapest, overlooking the Danube. In this Sermon on the Mount setting, wizened farmers in stiff Sunday black mingled with villagers wearing gaily embroidered costumes and city youths in Western jeans and printed T shirts. The crowd had reached 10,000 when the Rev. Billy Graham, visibly moved at the reception, made his way to the rostrum last week to begin his first Soviet-bloc preaching tour in three decades of gospel globetrotting...
This week the pressures will mount further when Congress returns from its recess and two committees convene almost immediately for hearings related to the Lance affair. Also due this week are the final segments of the Comptroller of the Currency's report-the document that did much to bring the heat on Lance to a boil. To reduce the heat, White House Press Secretary Jody Powell declared that Lance had done nothing to deserve being "run out of Government...