Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...according to many of the players, starters and benchriders. Ford was the cause of the added pressure. He rode the forwards continuously, he constantly made personnel changes, he stripped his scorers of their confidence. And here lies the reason for that curious state of limbo--although the players kept playing hard, they were playing to please Ford rather than to win, as one team member said...
...rarely needed notes, she also carried a heavy teaching schedule, lecturing before enthusiastic classes at both Columbia and Fordham universities. She established a hall of the Peoples of the Pacific at the American Museum of Natural History, where she was curator of ethnology. She brought a keen, insatiably curious mind and anthropological insights to bear on the problems of her own society and, with a confidence that made it clear she would brook no arguments, spoke out frequently on social and political problems that many of her colleagues preferred to avoid...
...election party in Los Angeles, Correspondent Joe Kane observed while celebrants, dressed in costumes ranging from knickers to gold lamè, absorbed mariachi music. "To top it all off," says Kane, "an Arab sheik arrived in full native costume, including six rings. He easily fit into this curious, Bruegelian scene...
...oral tradition of their ancestors. Firsthand evidence of Celtic accomplishments is more elusive. It is derived largely from ancient grave sites, many of which were ravaged by plunderers. Thus, a year ago, when farmers in the village of Hochdorf, 16 km (10 miles) northwest of Stuttgart, began plowing up curious stones that had clearly been assembled at the site in ancient times, archaeologists quickly converged on the scene. What they uncovered was the collapsed remnant of a burial mound 60 meters (197 ft.) wide, protected by massive bulwarks that hid the ornately appointed and undisturbed tomb of a Celtic chieftain...
...science's most audacious hoaxes. For four decades after the announcement in 1912 of its discovery near the English hamlet of Piltdown, the curious fossil with the humanlike cranium and the apelike jaw was believed by many anthropologists to be the long-sought "missing link" between man and ape. But in 1953, after application of new analytic techniques to thefamous skull, the ruse was finally revealed: the Piltdown man, as the fossil was dubbed, was a fraud. It consisted of nothing more than fragments of modern human skulls mingled with portions of a contemporary ape jaw with teeth doctored...