Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Across a parcel of scorched landscape, a pair of male ground squirrels are enacting an annual ritual. Chirping madly, the rivals dash at each other, tails raised, seeking to establish hegemony over the turf that will become a summer home for mate and offspring. The battle is fierce but short; the loser scuttles off into the sagebrush. The victor preens on hind legs, surveying a domain where shoots of bluebunch wheatgrass, Idaho fescue and larkspur have begun to sprout. It is springtime in the Rockies, and Yellowstone National Park is emerging from hibernation -- and recovering from the most troubled time...
Scientists say senationalism has had the unfortunate result in the past of lifting the public's hopes, only to dash them when they are proven untrue...
...competition, Harvard sophomore Derrick Horner won the sprinting events with a 100-meter time of 11.04 seconds, and finished the 200-meter dash in 22.12 seconds...
...addition to freshmen talent, the Crimson men's squad also has excellent senior leadership in Co-Captains Donald Lavigne and Brian Cann. Lavigne specializes in the 400 meter dash, and Cann is the team's top distance runner...
Rainey, who excels in every event from the55-meter dash to the 800-meter run, qualified forthe NCAA indoor championships in the 400-meterdash and won the 800-meter event in the ECACchampionships with a time...