Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that it shielded the astronauts from dust even when Cernan opened the rover's throttle to more than 7 m.p.h. on the way to South Massif, about four miles away. "Whoooaa, let's slow the speed up," Schmitt pleaded as the car narrowly missed dipping into one steep little crater. Cernan, however, showed a sure hand at the controls. "You can uncurl your toes now," he told Schmitt as they approached their destination, still intact...
...Nixon would give the highest pri ority to battling inflation, even if his policies would prolong an uncomfortably steep rate of unemployment; McGovern would drive to restore full employment even at the risk of more inflation...
...Sisyphus condemned forever to roll a heavy stone up a steep mountain, the American taxpayer has long seemed fated to support indefinitely the ever-costlier needs of government. Now, surprisingly, the burden may be getting a little lighter-at least on the state and local level. For the first time since the late 1940s, state and local governments are beginning to show a collective surplus. Altogether, in this fiscal year, these government units are expected to take in about $ 138 billion-$7 billion to $ 12 billion more than they spend...
...counts. Their job includes more than preservation, and reform has already come to the park system. "That report might have had some credibility two years ago, but not today," says Yellowstone Superintendent Jack Anderson. Take Yosemite, once the most troubled park of all. In 1970 the lovely, steep-walled valley was choked with auto exhaust and campfire smoke, and so overcrowded, says Ranger Bill Whalen, that "camping was tent-peg to tent-peg." Long-haired kids noisily sought kicks from nature-with a little help from drugs. On July 4, 1970, pot-smoking youths clashed with armed police...
...eleven years in Stalinist prisons and in exile, mourns his fellow Russian writers who died in concentration camps. Solzhenitsyn writes: "In order to mount this platform from which the Nobel lecture is read...I have climbed not three or four makeshift steps but hundreds and even thousands of them-steep, unyielding, frozen steps leading out of the darkness and cold where it was my fate to survive, while others-perhaps with greater gifts and more strength than I-have perished...As I stand here today, accompanied by the shadows of the fallen, head bowed, allowing others to pass ahead...