Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...destruction of the natural beauty of the Rocky Mountain states in order to provide the nation with a few years' supply of oil is like a bum burning a Renoir for a few minutes of fire...
...beautiful mountain identified in the picture as Grand Teton Mountain is really Mount Moran, as those, like myself, who have loved and climbed them both will recognize...
...comes to his mountain to labor, and this afternoon he was far out in the woods clearing one of his riding trails. With an 8-ft. pruning pole he reached high into the drooping branches, poking, pulling, sawing back and forth. For years he has stretched his muscles with a small, rubber-tired wheel that has a wooden bar through its center. Crouched on his knees, Reagan rolls the wheel far out in front of him, back and forth, 30 or 40 times. He even carries it with him on the road...
From Bald Mountain, the highest point on Reagan's land, you can see 40 miles down the California coast and, in the spectacular distance, five of the Channel Islands. At the other end of the ranch, you look down on the Santa Ynez Valley and gaze over heavy, rolling hills that plunge toward...
Reagan first felt that spell in 1974, during his final months as Governor, when a friend, Bill Wilson, took him to the mountain top and the two men rode horseback over the property. Reagan wanted it immediately, even though his financial advisers warned him off, and he put up $527,000 for the land and the ramshackle house (it has since tripled in value...