Word: dixons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Smith soccer team arrived a half hour late to this weekend's match against Harvard. Rather than going to the Business School Field, the Unicorns went to the Crimson's practice field behind the Palmer Dixon tennis courts. They should have stayed there...
When the last limping Bruin crossed the line at Franklin Field, the Crimson had racked up a near perfect 15-48 rout by capturing all of the top ten places except for sixth. The harriers accomplished the feat without the services of captain Adam Dixon, who was out with tendonitis, or Andy Gerken, sidelined with a hip injury...
...Harvard women's tennis team offered a lesson in American intensity as they beat a combined Oxford-Cambridge University squad 6-2 yesterday at the Palmer-Dixon courts...
...always in the past, so in the future: each ecosystem will produce its own specialized creatures. Relocated deserts will give rise to new animals capable of enduring for months without water, like the cameloid yet kangaroo-like desert leaper, able to store fat and other nutrients in its tail. Dixon proposes new islands settled by bats, which will evolve into forms specially adapted to exploit each of the islands' food sources. One group could well develop into an aquatic species capable of using its winged forelimbs for swimming. Another could, in the absence of competition, turn into the carnivorous...
Ranging from the carefree chirit, a long-bodied squirrel that moves by hunching its body inchworm-style, to the flooer, whose large pinkish ears mimic a flower to attract edible bees, Dixon's future zoo may suggest an imagination gone wild. But he is talking about a period 50 million years from now. And nature, the great experimenter, has already created creatures just as outrageous. -By Peter Stoler