Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mountain you use the outdoors rather than flee them for the warm confines of Lamont. It is far too easy to sound giddily rhapsodic, but acres of powdery snow (or more frequently, gleaming ice) can inspire enough reverential thought about nature to inspire lifetime membership in the Sierra Club...
...haven't been able to tall your roommates into joining you out on the tundra and would like company, both the Sierra Club and the Appalachian Mountain Club run cross-country trips of varying degrees of difficulty...
...policies. Since he was tapped to succeed Luis Echeverria as Mexico's President 14 months ago, José López Portillo has broken with that tradition. Even though he carried out a grueling 40,600-mile campaign from the oilfields and swamps of Tabasco to the high sierra, "Don Pepe" has promised only to govern by the "laws of the country." His suitably vague campaign slogan: "La solución somos todos-The solution...
...mood at bottle bill headquarters on Beacon Hill was "generally optimistic," last night, Richard Innes '78, Sierra club bottle bill coordinator, said...
Turning southwest, they cross the Continental Divide, push past gaudy Las Vegas and climb the Sierra Nevadas, pausing at Donner Pass. Here, explains Twain, whose lecturing is becoming a mild irritant, a wagon train, led by George and Jacob Donner in the winter of 1846-47, became trapped in a fierce snowstorm. Several members of the party died, whereupon the survivors proceeded to cannibalize the dead. Twain, having now discovered the credit-card culture, suggests that this event gave rise to the Donner's Club. Trollope is puzzled. "Is that like Carte Blanche?" Dickens, who has been dozing, starts...