Word: shreve
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Modern Mountain Man. "On clear days, Mount Rainier seems to rise in our front yard," boasts Phyllis Shreve, who lives with her husband Jerry and son Terry in a white frame house in the bucolic town of Kent, 16 miles south of Seattle. Jerry Shreve, 40, a native Kansan, came to Seattle at 18 to work for Boeing, where he is now a quality-control inspector. Off the job, his passions are growing roses, fishing (he ties his own flies), hunting elk and deer with a 52-lb. longbow or old-fashioned muzzle-loader...
...Shreve is something of a modern mountain man, self-reliant and happiest tramping through the wilderness-"doing an honest day's scouting." As a director of a group of the state's local sports clubs, he works to promote environmental legislation. He marvels, "When you look at a virgin forest after it rains, water runs through the streams clear as gin." Adds Shreve: "I hope and pray my son can enjoy the outdoors the way I have and live as a free person. This may be one of the last places he might do that...
...years, the 102-story Empire State Building dominated the skyline, tallest of the tall in a city of proud skyscrapers. Then, last year, the twin towers of the World Trade Center rose eight stories higher. Feeling dwarfed by these brash new comers, Robert W. Jones, vice president of Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, the original Empire architects, reflected: "Here's a building that's been the tallest building for 40 years, and now it's no longer the tallest." As Jones tells it:"Almost with tongue in cheek, I thought that maybe we could add a few floors...