Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which was prime agricultural land, and left another 50,000 acres all but useless. The lake's waters would have submerged more than 900 homes, trailers and cabins, drowned 600 farms, five post offices, 15 churches and twelve cemeteries. It would also have driven nearly 3,000 mountain people, most of them independent farmers, from lands settled by their ancestors before the Revolution...
...mountaineers figured that it was futile to oppose the power company and sold their lands, often receiving a fraction of what they were worth. But the rest decided to fight. "This is my home," said Sidney Sturgill, 51, a muscular World War II veteran who is the seventh in his family line to farm the rolling acreage just outside the tiny community of Piney Creek, N.C. "My ancestors got title to this land for fighting in the Battle of Kings Mountain. My people have been in this valley for more than 200 years, and my go-back-four-times greatgrandfather...
...CHINA'S ENEMIES. The revisionist leading clique of the Soviet Union and all the other leading cliques of renegades and scabs of various shades are mere dust heaps while you [the Albanian Communist Party] are a lofty mountain, tower to the skies. They are slaves and accomplices of imperialism . . . The U.S. imperialists and all other such harmful insects have already created their own gravediggers; the day of their burial cannot...
...would also have to do well in the Mountain and the Border state areas, crack at least a couple of the Southern states, and capture a pair or more of the heavyweights, such as California and Pennsylvania, to reach the magic 270. It will take some doing, but Ford claims to be encouraged by the results of private polls in 18 "battleground" states, which include Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Virginia and North Carolina, where he thinks he stands a chance of winning. An assessment of the Ford-Carter standings...
...costs by turning off water heaters twice a day during periods of peak consumer demand, when electricity is most expensive to produce. So far, ripple control has worked: according to test results, the system has saved roughly $60 a year per heater in electricity costs, a saving that Green Mountain Power (G.M.P.) has returned to participants in the experiment in the form of monthly $5 rebates...