Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...middle class has moved away from the ETA, and Basques in general have wearied of the struggle, the terrorists have come to draw most of their support-and recruits-from the dismal industrial suburbs that dot the narrow Basque mountain valleys some 20 to 25 miles inland. One such is Renteria (pop. 18,000), which adjoins the old Spanish summer royal residence of San Sebastian. A river running through town has the sickly sweet stench of dumped industrial wastes. A pall of chemical smoke from paper, plastics and cement factories hangs over the area on all but the windiest days...
...bribed with dasher-licking rights before he will turn the crank of the hand freezer, they use a reduction gear to make the paddles of the freezer in their wholesale plant turn slowly enough. At their ice-cream parlor, a rowdily redecorated former gas station, an elderly White Mountain Freezer Co. rock-salt-and-ice contraption chunks away serenely in a position of honor. It is powered by a senile electric motor but otherwise, wooden tub and all, it is a 5-gal. enlargement of the traditional hand-turned ecstasy machine. This freezer, which somewhat surprisingly produces enough ice cream...
...They were writing their doctoral dissertations in molecular biology ten years ago at the University of Colorado at Boulder, when Arsenault's homemade ice cream turned out to be so popular at parties they tried selling a few gallons to stores during the summer break. They now own Mountain High, a wildly popular superpremium freezery in Colorado that sells 20,000 gal. of natural ice cream a month...
...Padres campers are familiar with computers before they arrive (some bring their own home computers with them); for most, though, the two-week immersion is their first close encounter with the machines. "We've got a computer at my school," explains red-haired Karl Kuellmer, 14, of Mountain Ranch, Calif, "but no one knows how to use it." Founder Bollay sees his camp as a response to what he terms the "agonizingly slow pace" of school instruction in the subject. "In the future," he says, "those who are not computer-literate will be at a terrible disadvantage. Training kids...
...before a recent diet took him down to 350. He played Bette Davis' father in Hush, Hush'. . . Sweet Charlotte when he was 25 and Davis was 55. Now 43, Buono longs for varied roles but tells himself, "In a business of visual types, you are a mountain...