Word: slopes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time an eastward freight sweeps by on the descending grade. After Victorville it is a climb of 1,106 ft. in 19 miles to the summit of Cajon Pass, eerily shrouded in fog. We crawl along, watching for signals looming out of murk, then creep down the steep slope, air brakes hissing, to San Bernardino. Suddenly all is neon lights, freeways, gas stations and palm trees...
...Mendelssohn is convinced, caused consternation 30 miles away at Dahshûr, the site of the so-called Bent Pyramid. Some scholars have suggested that the Bent Pyramid's strange shape (its sides start up at an angle of 52°, but halfway to the top the slope changes abruptly to a more gentle 43½°) was brought about by the premature death of the pharaoh, which forced the workers to hasten completion of the pyramid. Mendelssohn, however, believes that the builders at Dahshûr, hearing of the avalanche at Medûm, prudently reduced the angle...
...learns that his grandparents' marriage had a tragic crisis and nearly fell apart. But its center held for sixty years -once the couple finally found their angle of repose, a term Stegner borrows from geology to describe the degree of slope at which falling rocks stabilize and cease to roll...
...since then it has been rising. One consequence is that the nation's known reserves of easily recoverable fuel declined in the late 1960s, at least in relation to consumption. That situation was reversed in oil last year because of the big find on Alaska's North Slope; proved reserves rose 24% during 1970. Known reserves of natural gas, however, have gone down in each of the past three years...
Billions of barrels of oil reserves are buried under the stark landscape of Alaska's North Slope. The problem is how to get this treasure to market. The best way, oilmen argue, is to pipe the crude across the breadth of Alaska to the southern port of Valdez, then tanker it to Seattle and Los Angeles. To date, oil companies have spent $300 million on engineering surveys, tanker contracts and special steel pipes. Yet the Federal Government has steadfastly refused to issue a permit to build the 789-mile-long pipeline across public land...