Word: mount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alaska must reluctantly claim the title as "the world's tallest rubbish heap." Our Mount McKinley has nearly 6,000 ft. more garbage and litter than Mount Whitney. Climbers report having to pick their way through banana peels, cans, and food wrappers to reach the top of North America...
...advantage in warheads, counting the MIR vs. The Russians' nightmare was their conviction that the U.S. is far stronger than they are today, largely because of its lead in MIRV technology; the Americans' fear was that the Soviets, catching up in MlRVs and with more launchers to mount them on, could surge ahead in the future. Brezhnev refused every mix of launchers and warheads proposed by Nixon, insisting that he would accept no proposal that in his view locked the Soviets into a state of inferiority...
...even-voiced, literate and intellectually respectable loyalists. There is considerable disagreement among them. But they share to varying degrees the conviction that the Roman Catholic Church in the wake of Vatican II is tolerating far too much diversity in doctrine and practice, and many of them are trying to mount something of a counterreformation...
With Americans returning to the wild as never before, backpacking their way home to nature, the main trail up Mount Whitney has become about as lonely as Times Square on New Year's Eve. Last summer some 15,000 people made the trek, most camping overnight along the way. Verdant stands of timber were denuded by ax-happy hikers hunting for firewood, and trails became littered with trash...
...Americans setting out in a fit of peak to make it to the top of Whitney, the Forest Service has reluctantly limited the number of overnight climbers to 75 a day. Reservations are required. But forget about Fridays and Saturdays through August. Whitney is already booked solid. Give Mount Kilimanjaro a call...