Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radioactive rock and dug it out, he could not remember where he had found it. For three months he retraced his steps through the hills until at last, on a Sunday afternoon, he discovered the spot where he had broken off his sample from an outcropping on Indian Head Mountain. "The Geiger counter was as hot as a firecracker," Schwartzwalder recalls. "Everywhere I went it picked up a strong reading...
...miles to the minesite, everything had to be carried by hand. Twice the entrance to the mine caved in; both times it took Schwartzwalder two months to clear an opening again. At last, in July 1953, Fred struck a vein of uranium, 70 ft. into the side of the mountain. "The Gei ger counter went right up," he remembers. "I knew...
...Denver, James A. More Jr. '26 chairman of the schools committee the Rocky Mountain Harvard Clubs and the plan "sounds fantastic. I'm against it. If a student has get to pay a $10 fee, it will look as though Harvard is saying, 'We'll rather you did not apply'." He estimated such a plan would cut applications from the Denver area by 40 percent...
...surefire issues. He challenged the Labor Party's leadership by opposing 1) West German rearmament, 2 ) a Southeast Asia pact. To dramatize his rebellion, he resigned from Labor's "Shadow Cabinet," gave up his front seat on the Opposition benches and retreated bulkily to the "Mountain," the backest back bench in the House of Commons, to await the showdown...
...silver-bearded wizard outlines Frodo's task and quest. He must "find the Cracks of Doom in the depths of Orodruin, the Fire-mountain, and cast the Ring in there ... to put it beyond the grasp of the Enemy for ever...