Word: steep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Actually, no one really knew who had killed the leader of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party as he was being driven to a meeting with party members. Slowing down at a corner to begin a steep climb 18 miles southeast of Beirut, the car was blocked by a Pontiac with an Iraqi license plate. Four men machine-gunned Jumblatt, his driver and his bodyguard; all three died almost immediately. The assassins sped away, crashed their car two miles down the road and hijacked a Fiat...
...turned out, nobody's I.D. was checked--perhaps because few "children" could afford the show's rather steep ticket prices in the first place. And the whole council debate on the subject apparently rattled Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci sufficiently for him to declare afterward that "it's getting to be like Russia around here...
...colleges have just started to face problems of making their environments accessible. Fewer changes were needed for the veterans who increased the numbers of paraplegic college students after World War II; although paraplegics rely on wheelchairs, they can deal much more easily with barriers such as heavy doors and steep inclines than quadriplegics...
...there really a need for a new pumper? Yes, the old one could not climb steep roads. Were there enough fires to justify a new truck? Absolutely, said someone from the fire department: because wood is cheaper than oil, more people were using their fireplaces for heat, and so there were more chimney fires. Moreover, fire insurance premiums would go down if the town had modern equipment. The purchase was approved...
...descended the steep stairway into what to all external appearances looked like your typical crackpot scientist's basement laboratory. There were the obligatory vapor-emitting test-tubes, cages full of mice, and banks of multi-colored lights rhythmically beating on and off. Something seemed amiss, however. The mice weren't soiling the copies of Padan Aram that had been placed in their cages. No, it looked to me as though they were reading them...