Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much mistreated and oft-massacred Indians of Brazil are an endangered human species. Almost their only guarantee of survival is the lands reserved for them by law, largely in the Amazon region, where many of these primitive tribesmen pursue a Stone Age way of life. Under the guise of "emancipating" the Indians, the Brazilian government has begun to remove their historic tribal lands from federal protection; last week a decree was sent to President Ernesto Geisel that ends official protection and gives the Indians title to their land. The rationale was that it would put the Indians on the same...
Jumpers range in age from 16 to well into the 70s. George McCulloch of Syracuse is 73; he has 875 jumps and still does eight-man team work. Eleven percent of USPA members are women. They fly on many of the teams here at the turkey meet. At first, in the years after World War II, most sport jumpers were ex-paratroopers. Now they are your neighbors, your sons and daughters...
...diggers found a wheeled bronze couch adorned with geometric patterns and supported by eight figurines, each 30 cm (12 in.) high, in positions of adoration. On the couch lay the skeleton of a powerful man, nearly 2 meters (about 6 ft.) tall and between 30 and 40 years of age, obviously a chief. Encircling his neck was a gold-covered wooden band that was probably a symbol of royalty. At his feet was a heavy bronze kettle more than a meter in diameter, decorated with three lions. Imported from Greece, the kettle had apparently been filled with wine for this...
...last week, in a posthumous statement published in the journal Nature, the late British Geologist James Archibald Douglas offered his solution to the Piltdown hoax. The culprit, said Douglas in a tape recording made only a few months before his death last February at age 93, was his predecessor as professor of geology and paleontology at Oxford University, William Johnson Sollas. The motive: Sollas wanted to destroy the reputation of a hated rival by tricking him into publicly accepting as authentic what would later be unmasked as an elaborate joke...
...adult women in the U.S. have Pap smears annually, relatively few of the tests are on women who run the highest risk of developing cervical cancer. The disease is most prevalent among women in low-income groups, as well as those who begin having sex at an early age and have multiple sex partners...