Word: mount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this passes Travis by. He has no organizing principle to his life. Experience floods him, but the distinctions blur. He can't understand why Betsy flees. To him it's just another betrayal, another failure, and his rage continues to mount. He prepares to assassinate Palantine...
...editorial, Dr. James F. Holland, head of the cancer center at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, hailed the tests as a "work of monumental importance" that could save hundreds of thousands of lives in the coming decade. Americans, he added, "now can admire more in Milan than La Scala...
...Mount Baker first began to stir from its long sleep last March, when unusual amounts of steam or smoke began rising from the Sherman Crater, a 1,600-ft.-wide depression left just below the summit by an earlier eruption. Fearful that the steam could melt snow and trigger giant mudslides, the Forest Service closed the shoreline of Baker Lake, shut down several nearby campgrounds, and put much of the mountain off limits...
...data collected on Mount Baker's slopes have been inconclusive, and many people in Concrete believe that authorities have overstated the potential dangers of the current activity. "All this steam business is a lot of hot air," says Robert Fader, publisher of the Concrete Herald. "Baker has steamed before and it will steam again...
...scientists studying the mountain concede that their activity and reports have proved costly to Concrete. But the Forest Service insists that placing threatened areas off limits makes eminent sense. Mount Baker does not have to awaken fully and erupt in order to be deadly. All the restless giant need do to cause a disaster is to shrug off its snowy and earthen coverings...