Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sacrifice notwithstanding, steam shovels, dredges and swarms of black West Indian laborers wielding picks and shovels scarcely scratched Culebra, an eight-mile stretch where the lowest mountain pass was 275 ft. above sea level. The main hope of the company's creditors was that the U.S. would buy the French rights to the Panama project. Bunau-Varilla, at one time the company's acting director-general, began to lobby the U.S. government to do precisely that...
Will the real Moses please come down from the mountain...
...doctors reported in yesterday's New England Journal of Medicine the death rate from heart disease is lower in mountains because people get better exercise in the thin mountain...
Like many towns that fell to the advancing forces of Generalissimo Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War, the mountain resort village of Cercedilla (current pop. 4,000), 35 miles north of Madrid, suffered its share of Nationalist vengeance. Some Republican sympathizers were imprisoned and a few were shot, while many more fled to exile. One of those never accounted for was Protasio Montalvo, the Socialist mayor of Cercedilla during part of the war. For years villagers wondered whether he had died fighting on some distant front or had been a victim of mass executions after the war or perhaps...
...build new facilities because of opposition from environmentalists, the company carried nonexistent reserve-generating capacity on its books, and more or less hoped for the best. When Luce took over, two new plants were under construction and plans were under way to develop a hydroelectric facility atop Storm King Mountain on the Hudson River. Though all three projects were supposed to be on line by mid-1972, it took the new chairman nearly a year to realize that the target dates were wildly unrealistic. By then, costs were soaring and the environmental lobby was pummeling the Storm King project...