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Word: acacias (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...constant air bombardment is probably the major cause of casualties. It also shapes practically every aspect of life behind E.P.L.F. lines. Unless skies are overcast, vehicles are not permitted to move during the day. Trucks or jeeps are hidden beneath nearly every acacia tree. Antiaircraft guns are on constant alert. Every rebel building is covered with vines and tree branches; * some permanent structures have 2-ft.-thick stone walls that can withstand barrages of shrapnel. Civilians are regularly lectured on how to wipe burning napalm jelly from their skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethiopia a Forgotten War Rages On | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...when you reach an edge and leave the city behind, there is no sense of leaving anything, because the fried chicken joints, the car washes, taco houses, newspaper racks, billboards, stop lights and, along your flanks, oil pumps bobbing like giraffes eating the tops out of acacia trees just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: In Search of the Angels | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

Junior Marie Acacia took the shot put and the discus events with throws of 39-ft., 1-in, and 114-ft., respectively. Classmate Kathleen Durante took second in both events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's the Veritas: Tracksters Tame Bulldogs | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

...Marie Acacia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The 1983-84 All-Ivy Women's Squash Team | 3/9/1984 | See Source »

Harvard's Marie Acacia, despite troubling injuries which have hindered her all year, shot putted 43 feet for a second place finish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tracksters Stumble at Heps | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

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