Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reference works as the Linguistic Atlas of New England. It also scoured more than 500 books of regional literature, including William Faulkner's The Reivers, which contributed one of Cassidy's favorites, bobbasheely, a Deep South word of Indian derivation meaning a very close friend. Out of the resulting mountain of some 2.5 million items, Cassidy and four editors selected the gems for Volume I (which sells for a hefty $49.95) and the four sequels that are now planned...
...high pile of concrete and reinforcing bars. With at least 40 occupants found dead and 230 counted as injured, officials feared that 1,500 remained trapped, alive or dead, in the ruins. Volunteers formed lines to pass chunks of concrete, hand to hand, down from the mountain of rubble in the effort to find survivors. When a young boy was pulled out of the crush of concrete --bloody and bruised, but not seriously hurt--rescuers and bystanders broke into cheers...
Farther inland, at Atenquique, a town in Jalisco state, part of a mountain, said a policeman, "just slid away," burying several people. In nearby Ciudad Guzman, 25 people were killed as they worshiped in a church that collapsed on them. Elsewhere, four popular hotels in the hard-hit resort area of Zihuatanejo-Ixtapa, on the Pacific coast, had to be evacuated because of damage: Riviera del Sol, El Presidente, Dorado Pacifico and the Sheraton...
...plates carrying two continental masses collide, for example, the crust buckles, creating craggy mountain ranges like the Himalayas. If they grind past each other, as the Pacific and North American plates do under California's San Andreas fault, friction locks them together. Every so often, abrupt slippages occur and the earth around them shudders in what geologists call strike-slip quakes. Still another kind of tectonic phenomenon, the meeting of an oceanic and a continental plate, is responsible for the Mexican disaster...
...shook up the whole country; the Sex Pistols played yet another funeral march for the British Empire. Things simmered down with time, which is probably what is most needed now. Even liberals like New York Governor Mario Cuomo have voiced concern about explicit lyrics. Danny Goldberg, president of Gold Mountain Records, has organized his own group to counter the influence of the P.M.R.C., but readily admits, "I empathize with parents who are shocked to see what happens as their kids grow...