Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congress going into recess and no crisis requiring a presidential presence in Washington, Jimmy Carter felt as entitled as any other citizen to an August vacation. A white-water enthusiast for many years, he decided that the Rockies' Salmon River would provide a brisk break from the capital. The mountain vistas of the American West were more appealing in August than his usual retreat on Georgia's St. Simon's Island...
...tung ignored the gesture. In subsequent years, the Chinese press regularly attacked Titoist "revisionism." In one famous outburst, the Peking People's Daily called Tito "a dwarf kneeling in the mud and trying with all his might to spit at a giant standing on a lofty mountain...
...very origins of the universe, could exist. In the Big Bang, the primordial explosion that created the universe some 15 billion to 20 billion years ago, matter was hurled in all directions. In some places, Hawking says, quantities of matter roughly equivalent to the amount in a mountain may have become compressed enough to collapse, forming what he calls mini-black holes. Their circumference, as measured by their event horizons, could be no larger than that of an atomic particle...
Committee Chairman Louis Stokes, who had predicted that Ray would be killed by fellow conspirators during his escape from Brushy Mountain state prison in Tennessee last summer, now led the critical questioning of Ray. Why had he not tried harder to help his lawyers find Raoul? "I thought he would probably testify against me," said Ray. The answer fit Ray's contention that Raoul was a conspirator working with unknown others to kill King but let Ray take the punishment. Offering no evidence, Ray implied that Raoul may have been working with...
...small brown moths darkened the skies in Maine's mountain country in early July, cutting visibility at times to less than 300 yds. Motorists who left the windows of parked cars open near Presque Isle had to beat away the insects to get back behind the wheel. Since then, the moths have dropped eggs in massive quantities, and tiny quarter-inch-long spruce budworms are now eating their way through 150 million acres of forests in Maine and southeastern Canada. Evergreen spruce and fir trees stand brown and naked in the summer...