Word: inch
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Near Lake Arrowhead, about ten per cent of the Ponderosa pines, about 1,300,000 trees, have died from the L.A. smog. Ponderosa pines reign over the Western forests. They're often two hundred feet all, with ten-inch-long needles. They are the oldest trees with the longest roots. In a sense, they hold the forest together. After a forest fire, grass begins to grow, which is soon replaced by bushes, like mountain mahogany and thimbleberry. Fast growing poplar trees shade out the bushes, like quaking aspens. After about a hundred years, the coniferous forest again dominates the area...
Even so, Williams expects little from whites. Says he grimly: "White America would rather see this nation destroyed than give up white racism. The worst institution in America today is the white church. It has more hypocrisy per square inch than any other. And no impression I have received in the past five years has made any difference...
...tribes of the north, aware this year more than ever of their dependence on the south, watched the L.A. weather reports and when the traitorous dew raised the precipitation level yea even a quarter inch, the northern tribes sent scouts to the south, chanting as they came, to ask the southern chiefs if relief from famine could be expected. And Io, hardly had the bikes of the emissaries been spotted on the horizon by the eagle-eyed and sleepless watchers, when the hay in the fields began to move and sigh and the Great Hot Wind from the Desert began...
...impossibility of remembering it all, he quickly filled a notebook with impressions, possible leads, themes, sequences and questions. Then the notebook disappeared. Researcher Eileen Shields, meanwhile, kept track of Church's files, her own reports, 31 reference and textbooks and mountains of clippings, only by using every square inch of floor space. Senior Editor Marshall Loeb arrived at dawn in his Manhattan hotel room to find his bed unmade since the last occupant. Sleepily, Loeb researched the problem and his bed was made up within the hour. He was back at his desk an hour and 45 minutes later...
...inside the earth through fractures in its crust. As the magma presses into new regions, it raises the earth on top of it. At the same time, land some distance away may gradually subside to fill the area vacated by the molten rock. That could account for a six-inch drop in the level of the resort island of Ischia, only ten miles offshore...