Word: australian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest of Australia and only one paved road through the outback. Navy units were immediately dispatched from Sydney with emergency supplies, but it will take them a week to complete the 2,500-mile voyage. Meanwhile, air force planes, commercial airlines and private jets donated by several Australian companies were airlifting 3,000 people a day out of the stricken city...
...came here eight years ago with $200 in my pocket, a small child in my arms, wondering if I had any future at all," recalled Australian-born Singer Helen Reddy, 33. Now a top-ranking female pop vocalist in the U.S. and composer of the rousing feminist anthem I Am Woman, Reddy last week joined ranks with her American fans by becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen. With Bronx-born Husband-Manager Jeff Wald at her side, Reddy took the oath of allegiance in Los Angeles, then wept happily on the shoulder of Mayor Tom Bradley, who witnessed the ceremony. "This...
Dingo is a dirty word in the Australian vocabulary. As an adjective, it connotes extreme cowardice. As a noun, it refers to a species of wild dog, usually yellow and about the size of a German shepherd, whose bite is worse than its bark.* In the 19th century, before any organized attempts to eradicate the dingoes, they killed about 500,000 sheep a year, making them Australia's public enemy No. 1. As late as the 1920s, Anatomist Frederic Wood-Jones expressed the national attitude toward the killers. "To say anything in favor of the hated wild...
Watered Silk. Nevertheless, they are almost dramatic in comparison with the works of the Italian artist Alighiero Boetti, the Frenchman Daniel Buren or the Australian Robert Hunter. Boetti's way of artmaking is to cover (or have his assistants cover) large sheets of paper with millions of tiny strokes of a ballpoint pen, thus turning all the paper blue except for some stray commas and capital letters which are left white. This laborious doodling produces now and again some pretty moire effects, like watered silk, but that is all, and the all is virtually nothing. It is, however, more...
...celebrated wedding-to-be was postponed. Chris's father said: "They might get married in December or next year or a year from now." But the romance seems to have shaken Chrissie's game. After winning 56 straight matches, she has been beaten two times running by Australian Star Evonne Goolagong and rumors persist that Jimmy's mother, Gloria Connors, a former amateur star herself, is possessive, and does not give the young couple enough time together. Well, mixed doubles is never having to say you're sorry...