Word: plummetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...STOWE, VT. Though Mount Mansfield (4,393 ft.) is only a foothill by Alpine or Rocky Mountain standards, it offers what many consider the finest skiing in the East. Novices can stem their way along the four-mile-long Toll Road; experts can plummet down the narrow, twisting chutes of the National or the Goat. Everyone can enjoy the eclectic night life, which runs from fierce rock to folk singing, in the restaurants and hotels of the compact, bustling village. The average cost of a week's vacation, including meals, moderately priced sleeping accommodations* and lift tickets...
...time besmirched his reputation for a century and altered the politics of the day. Teapot Dome, which blew up after the death of Warren Harding, became a textbook case in every hamlet in America. The deepfreezes and minks of Harry Truman's day caused his popularity to plummet to bedrock. And when Bernard Goldfine's rug was found in the living room of Sherman Adams, the White House Iron Man of Dwight Eisenhower's Administration, the national outcry reached such a pitch that Ad ams resigned in something like disgrace...
Adams House is facing a coffee cup crisis as the number of white plastic cups remaining in the dining hall continues to plummet far below the number of students in the House...
...Depression--his dreams, despite all his efforts to realize them, had been almost universally deferred. Often in the years before leaving Chicago, he might well have felt like Robert, the character in Jean Toomer's Cane, whose head was sealed inside a diving helmet so monstrous as to plummet him irrespressibly into the crushing depths of an ocean's clammy inferno. Doomed if he were to remove his monstrous mask and doomed if he did not, Robert Jackson could perhaps have done no more than he did: kick and stroke for 16 hours a day and hope. What Robert Jackson...
...naked wrinkles, glum, dispirited, forlorn. Forlorn because just outside Mel's screen door, his own twelve-acre nudist club-the Oakdale Guest Ranch-is going silently to seed in the dry heat of the San Bernardino Mountains. In fact, the club's membership in two years has plummeted from 300 to 60 couples, and it continues to plummet as the elderly members die off. Another nudist camp near by recently closed up for good...