Word: mountaintop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accessible only by climbing seven miles on a switchback road, through gullies and blind turns that drop off sharply toward the water, a drive that still makes Nancy Reagan nervous. Strong winds and fog often roll in suddenly from the sea; at other times the air on the mountaintop is crystal clear and dead quiet, so still that a voice can be heard at great distances...
...John Belushi on a mountaintop, roll the cameras, and what will result: (a) Animal House on a Hill, (b) The Blues Brothers Camp Out or (c) Samurai Height Fever? Answer: none of the above. In Continental Divide, Belushi climbs into what he calls his first "realistic acting role," one that is "less of a cartoon than any I've done before." It takes him 14,000 ft. up in Colorado's Sangre de Cristo mountains, where he portrays a Mike Royko-like Chicago reporter who has raked so much local muck that his editors have decided to pack...
...Strauss, he was anxious not to bruise Kennedy further. A few minutes later the report of Kennedy's withdrawal came over the TV sets, and the Carter men let out another roar. The size of their victory, 545.8 votes, clearly lifted the President's aides. From his mountaintop at Camp David, the President had a different view. He told Strauss later in the evening that Kennedy had telephoned him. The Senator had not sounded all that conciliatory, said the wary Carter, and there could still be real trouble. "We haven't got a great victory here," warned...
...West Bank's 2,200 sq. mi., including some of the most fertile farm land in the Jordan Valley. In many instances, land has been seized in the name of defense. A $300 million housing project for 20,000 Israelis is currently being built on the mountaintop of Ma'ale Adumin, thereby completing the "encirclement" of Jerusalem that successive Israeli governments have claimed as a strategic priority since the 1967 war. In other cases, little effort is made to justify expansionism on security groundsfor example, the recent Cabinet decision approving the right of Israelis to settle...
...island was named by Columbus for the great mountaintop monastery in northeastern Spain. Montserrat has a mildly active volcano, Galway Soufriere, which huffs and puffs sulfurous fumes...