Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gals in Bluefield, West Virginia can rest easy tonight. Fired on by the wrath of the small jade idol he occasionally worships, loveable wrestling scientist and general all around lady's man Bobo Brazil beat the scurrilous and deceitful Man Mountain Mike in the sport's first loser-loses-sex match...
Both humongous titans had a lot to lose (Bobo being a reference standard for the Sexual Consultation Group's virility experiments, and Man Mountain being a Mormon), but however much the multiligimented meatball curmudgeoned his swaying flesh to do his dark desires, it was all for naught. Supple young Brazil whupped him to bacon fat. Bobo truly sent the Mountain to Mohammed...
...last Wednesday, walls began to shake and buckle in Muradiye, a hardscrabble, mud-and-stone mountain town near the Turko-Iranian border. Soon houses were crumbling across an area of 300 sq. mi. The worst Turkish earthquake in nearly 40 years, measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale,* had convulsed the eastern part of the country, with Muradiye at its epicenter. At week's end it was estimated that 5,000 people had died in the quake and its aftershocks; countless thousands of others were suffering from hunger and exposure...
...taught them to expect the worst. Last year a quake hit the area, leaving 3,000 dead. In 1939 another seismic catastrophe took 30,000 lives. This time more than 120 towns and villages were affected, some of them isolated by 8 in. of snow on the narrow mountain roads. In the settlement of Alikelle, only two people survived out of 70 families. In the town of Caldiran, where 2,023 people once lived, only one structure remained standing: an army officers' billet...
...from earth and about 100 times the diameter of the sun's own Milky Way galaxy, M87 is a great spherical island of billions of stars apparently in the midst of a tremendous upheaval. Photographs of M87 taken through the 200-in. telescope atop California's Palomar Mountain seem to show (top) that the galaxy is shooting into space an enormous jet of material, equal to the mass of countless suns...