Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unblinkingly insist that 95% of all mail is delivered on time, nonetheless admit that there is a daily backlog of 5,000 tons of mail; newspapers charge that it is more like 12,000 tons. Whatever the figure, the backlog is so huge that cynics have suggested that the mountain of undelivered mail be junked and that the post office start all over again. Someone in the system seems to agree: in June, Italian police discovered that 200 tons of undelivered mail had been sold to a Bergamo processing plant for recycling...
...Charging for artillery support. Two years ago, it was common practice to fire off 20 artillery rounds for every one round fired by the Communists, thus generating a salable mountain of brass shell casings. With the reduction of American military aid, the Saigon command usually limits each big gun to four or five rounds a day. Still, there is profit to be made, and some artillery officers are most likely to offer fire support to battalion commanders who pay. The going rate is $1 or $2 per round...
...around my neck in the fall and when winter set in, I discovered that I could don my woolen hat, scarf and mittens without feeling like I was dressing up for Halloween. After all, who needs mittens in Southern California unless you're skiing on the slopes of Mammoth Mountain...
Ruth set another unbroken record. During the 1922 season, he was suspended no fewer than five times-for drinking, being late to games, and disobeying the formidable commissioner of baseball, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis. (He did not, as has often been reported, hold the Yankees' minuscule manager Miller Muggins off the rear platform of a train or threaten to drop him. But he might have...
...people I've come into contact with in my travels, the one who is most like Bill and Charlie also ventured in and out of Reno to find his fortune. I was hitching to the West Coast and had made it as far as Colorado. Outside Rocky Mountain National Park I and two other hitchers were picked up by a husky dark-skinned man who said he wasn't sure but he thought he might be going to San Francisco, 1200 miles away. As we drove during the day and into the night, through western Colorado and Utah and into...