Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tennis toes" [Aug. 13] are in actuality nothing more than an extremely mild form of what those of us who are mountain hikers know as "downhill toe jam." It is a simple result of the laws of physics. Increasing your body weight by a heavy pack, then compounding the effect of your toes hammering into the front of the shoe by walking downhill, brings on a far more serious malady than mere tennis toes...
...more disgusting example of the same irrelevance, the Boston Globe, usually a member of the responsible press, last month splashed a gigantic photo across its front page of two mountain climbers dangling form their safety harnesses. To add insult to injury, the Globe copyrighted the picture, their way of letting us know they had something good, and they were proud...
...productive and manifest fruition. Harry, who was to bring the Big B into vogue in Cambridge, and make the James Browns and Floyd Lewises into superhuman and unquestioned BMOCs. Harry, who hoped to transform the phone booth gymnasium perched atop the ancient. IAB complex like an ascetic's mountain retreat into a hotbed of vituperative energy and activity which would emanate from its fourth-floor generator like a pulsing and life-giving sign. Harry, whose massive and hoopla'ed cherry bomb got somewhere defused, who never knew why the big cracker fizzled, who never could decipher whether...
Geophysicist Gordon Greene, of the U.S. Geological Survey, was equally enthusiastic. He had been with Sykes when Aggarwal phoned in his forecast and had driven to Blue Mountain Lake just in time for the quake. "If you can do this three times," he told Aggarwal, "you will all be famous...
...cracks, the ratio returns to normal. But the water increases pressure within the rock, causing one wall of the fault to slide along the other. It is this slippage that creates the shock. In a paper submitted to Science, Sykes, Aggarwal and Christopher Scholz assert that in the Blue Mountain region the seismic-wave phenomenon occurs before every sizable earth tremor...