Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...needs such blinding speed? At the Livermore Lab and NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. (which is scheduled to receive the second Cray-2 in September), the new machines will be used for such projects as studying the intense magnetic fields needed for fusion reactors and designing heat shields for future space probes. Meanwhile, demands for ever faster computers are coming from researchers in nearly every discipline of science and engineering, from astrophysics to automobile design. Using more powerful supercomputers, aircraft manufacturers will be able to simulate the airflow around an entire airplane, simplifying their design task...
...members of the United Mine Workers, is evoking even uglier images. "It's almost like a civil war," said ex-Mayor Robert McCoy of Matewan, W. Va. Hayes West, a nonunion truck driver, was killed and another driver wounded when snipers opened fire on a convoy on Coeburn Mountain in Kentucky; three other drivers have been wounded in similar ambushes...
...quick case and find there's no bar and no smoking in the dining room or parlor, for crying out loud, when a writer name of Donald E. Westlake gets us all together to give us the story line. For openers, we ain't in the Mohonk Mountain House no more; we're in something called the Hotel Kuckkuckuhr, in Switzerland, and it's 1938. Then Westlake shows us this black-and-white flick that's more black than white, which is to say I'm talking poor quality, of some dumpity guy, a real lard bucket, being bothered...
...place she drags me to turns out not to be no dump but more like a castle. Couple of Quaker brothers name of Smiley started it in 1869. Goes by the moniker of Mohonk Mountain House. It's 80 or 90 miles north of the city (I say the city because we all say the city, but if it's not your city I should say New York City). The place and the grounds are a real knockout, and the folks are nuts about plants, which grow in the ground, instead of in pots, where everybody knows God intended them...
...huge Soviet force. This is turning into the biggest offensive of the war," said Sayed Majrooh, head of the independent Afghan Information Center in Peshawar, Pakistan, last week. According to Majrooh, Soviet troops, backed by jet fighters and helicopter gunships, have been seizing strategic mountain passes along Afghanistan's rugged border with Pakistan. The objective is to cut once and for all the flow of arms and supplies from Pakistan to Afghan resistance fighters...