Word: mount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mondale's strategy still is to run flat out everywhere, hoping to build an insurmountable lead before Hart can collect the money, throw together the organization and capitalize sufficiently on his sudden publicity to mount a serious challenge. Aides still think that Mondale can win as many as 900 of the 1,331 delegates who will be chosen in the three weeks between New Hampshire and Illinois, giving him more than 45% of the 1,967 needed for the nomination before Hart has picked up more than a few hundred...
...this way Mom says you've been, well, different, since you began talking about law school. Anyway, the New York Yacht Club is helping the Grenada Yacht Club get back on its feet by sending down a five member race committee and a committee boat. The Mount Gay Rum Company is throwing a post-race party. The Rolex watch company is donating the prizes. "It's a veritable capitalist welcome-wagon...
...Shuttle Assembly Building was not part of the original design of the Vandenberg launch pad. Early plans called for vehicle assembly to take place in the semienclosed environment of the service tower, with the tower's crane and a second device, called a strongback, attached to the Launch Mount Tower, to perform all the hoisting. The system called for a tolerance limit of as much as ¼ in. in fitting the orbiter to the tank. NASA said no, setting the maximum permissible degree of variation at a minuscule ³¹/iooo...
Those bamboo poles and an abandoned pair of snowshoes were the only traces late last week of the celebrated mountain climber. He was reported missing and feared lost on the west face of North America's highest peak, Mount McKinley in Alaska. His disappearance came just days after a spectacular success: on Feb. 12, his 43rd birthday, Uemura had become the first climber to make a solo ascent of the 20,320-ft. peak in midwinter...
...Uemura had been facing outsize dangers for nearly two decades. The unassuming farmer's son took up mountain climbing while studying agriculture at Tokyo's Meiji University. He became a national hero in 1970 when, as a member of the first Japanese team to successfully climb Mount Everest, he was the first to reach the 29,028-ft. peak. But his most rewarding feats were those performed, as he once put it, "in all the splendor of solitude." He explained, "It is a test of myself, and one thing I loathe is to have to test myself...