Word: acacias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, the Crimson has the potential to sweep the shotput in every meet. Senior co-captain Kim Johnson will be joined this year by two outstanding freshmen--Marie Acacia and Kathy Durante--and the trio could well outclass all of its competition. Acacia is the New York State indoor shotput champion, and Durante is an accomplished discus and shotput thrower in her own right...
...idea occurred to Kortlandt, 62, in 1976 on a dig in Ethiopia at a prehistoric site. Resting in the shade of a thorny acacia tree, he realized that a short bipedal creature could easily enough break off a branch covered with hooklike thorns, and wave it as a weapon; lions, Kortlandt knew, stay clear of thorns. To test his theory, he journeyed to the Kora National Reserve in Kenya and set large chunks of meat covered with thorn branches near a pride of twelve lions tamed by George Adamson of Born Free fame. The lions approached and batted tentatively...
...four-wheel-drive Toyota bucked and rattled over a rutted road, past a desolate landscape of brick red clay and wind-sculpted termite hills, it was hard to imagine how anyone could live in this barren wasteland. Even tough acacia trees wither and die in the unceasing glare of the Ogaden's hostile sun. Suddenly the car rumbled to a stop. "Look over there," said the guide, Mohamed Heeban, gesturing toward a clump of thornbushes along the bank of a dried-up stream. "That is Karraro, the city under the trees...