Word: mountain
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Bruce Roberts' assignment included the Hound Ears Golf and Ski Club, a remote mountain resort in western North Carolina whose nearest commercial airport is 50 miles away at Hickory. Club Owner Grover Robbins meets his guests at the airport, shuttles them in his own plane to the club, lands them on the fairway. To prepare for shooting one such arrival (no one was sure just where the craft would put down), Roberts took a few practice turns on an electric golf cart, then waited for Robbins. As the plane dipped down, Roberts set off with cart steering gear...
...were graded and criticized by another student taking the course! When the professor showed up (always late), he kept us overtime and then, in the last two classes, lectured at breakneck speed so that he could give us an exam that presupposed that he had given and discussed a mountain of information. I won't get over the experience for many years...
...Paper Mountain. To finance his rapid growth, Tino borrowed huge sums of money, using huge amounts of oil as collateral. But there was one hitch: he never had all that oil. What he did have was a mountain of paper-certificates attesting that he owned the oil. Although Billie Sol Estes at that very time was making headlines for having passed off similarly spurious paper for nonexistent ammonia tanks, the bankers and brokers never bothered to check up on De Angelis' tanks. Nor did they question De Angelis' warehouse receipts, because Tino had them signed by officials...
...symptons of "cyclobutadiene intoxication" as: "Inability to concentrate, drowsiness during the day, frequent yawning, lassitude, a negative disposition, and, eventually intermittent periods of insensibility deepening to semistupor." There is no antidote, but removing the patient as far as possible from the affected area (preferably to a seaside or mountain location) seems to bring a prompt alleviation of symptoms...
Next morning, as Lady Bird slept in, Udall led his wife and Mrs. Robert S. McNamara, wife of the Secretary of Defense, along with reporters and photographers to the top of Sharp Top Mountain (elevation 3,875 ft.) to show off the Blue Ridge Mountains and make a pitch for conservation. With an investment of $150 in camping equipment, his department points out, a family of four can spend a weekend outdoors for only...