Word: australian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hereditary factors 20 per cent to . However, this conclusion is not acceptable, since it is based on populations living the homogeneous range of environmental encountered in Britain or the U.S.A. allow for the much wider range of environmental differences between western middle- families and African or Indian peasants or australian shoriginals, the propotions would be more nearly 50-50 or even reversed. In it is not very meaningful to try to reach as general figure, since the genes and the environment are not separate factors whose contributions can be added; they are mixed up from exceptions onwards. We need...
...rumor is correct, the archives will pretty well destroy the Australian notion that the nation's World War II soldiers were a breed of bronzed supermen. During the retreat from Singapore, 300 Aussie soldiers are said to have pushed aside women and children at gunpoint in order to get aboard the liner Empire Star. During the 1942 Japanese bombing of Darwin, soldiers panicked and fled the city ahead of civilians; one air-force deserter was found 300 miles away...
...naked nymph pulling a kangaroo's tail? Or was she really pulling a million Australian legs...
...long circulation slide, from 868,000 to 745,000 in the past decade. Last week Freeburg resigned abruptly from one of the top jobs in journalism, explaining that he wanted "to do things faster than the corporate management wanted to move." His successor is Maxwell McCrohon, 43, an amiable Australian who first came to the U.S. in 1952 as a correspondent for a Sydney paper. He settled in Chicago nine years later and has brought plenty of flair to the Trib's afternoon sister, Chicago Today, as its managing editor for the past two years...
...balloting was conducted according to the Australian system in which the voter ranks all the candidates in order of preference...