Word: dorsal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first month, Jaws has grossed an unprecedented $53 million and sent a delicious shiver along the nation's beaches. Formerly bold swimmers now huddle in groups a few yards offshore, bathers stunned with sun hover nervously at water's edge and at the hint of a dorsal fin retreat to the beach. "D'ya want to get jawed?" shouted one kid to another in the Santa Monica, Calif., surf. Even the lowly dogfish, the spaniel of the seas but a shark just the same, is suspected of homicidal intentions. "Kill it, kill it," urged a Long Island...
...Amazon basin-an area almost the size of the continental U.S.-and provide vast new resettlement lands for 500,000 homesteaders over the next five years. Says Transport Minister Mario Andreazza: "We have to conquer Brazil completely, and this will do it. Transamazonia will be the dorsal spine of Brazil...