Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the villa also has an excellent view of the 13th century cathedral campanile and the town piazza, Jackie will have to drive about 20 minutes to get to its beach house, or else gingerly descend 282 steps carved into the steep rock. Aside from swimming from the rocks (there is no beach), she will certainly have a chance to water...
...states. There they stood awed and silent. All around were 14,000-ft. mountains covered with snow, aspen, blue spruce and Douglas fir; in the craggy heights roamed elk, bear and mountain sheep. The boys could tell it was no place for softies as they started trudging up the steep, three-mile road to a campsite high above the Crystal River Valley. Under the deep blue sky waited tents, blazing alpine meadows and leathery-faced instructors. "I hope you will enjoy your stay here," declared one instructor tersely, "but enjoyment will be a byproduct...
...Dillon feels that a quick cut this year would wreck the Administration's plans for broad reform next year. Treasury experts have been working on the outlines of a reform bill for more than a year. Under present plans, cuts in rates under the reform bill would be steep enough so that the measure would bring overall tax reductions-but some taxpayers now benefiting heavily from special provisions might find themselves owing more income tax rather than less as a result of the bill's loophole-closing provisions...
...have usually been bullied and ideologically "reformed" by Communist bosses, the 900 Meissen workers have been left in relative peace to do their jobs in the painstaking traditional way. As a result, while most East German goods are hopelessly shoddy, Meissen china has retained its traditional quality, commands a steep price wherever it is sold, e.g., a twelve-place dinner setting of the bestselling "Blue Onion" design costs $500 in New York. Next to optical products and cameras, Meissen is East Germany's best hard-currency earner...
There was no violence; on the contrary, the drab little towns in the steep Asturian valleys took on a holiday air as idle workers strolled the streets with their families, or gathered at cafes to drink cider or the red wine of Leon and eat chorizos, the popular peppered sausages. Many listened to Radio Espafia Independiente. the Communist transmitter that spews its anti-Franco propaganda from Prague. Czechoslovakia (featuring La Pasionaria. legendary Red amazon of the Civil War). Since Franco's own press and radio were suppressing the whole matter. Prague was the only Spanish-language source of news...