Word: extinct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...domain of science fictioneers. The digger merely seemed to exercise his imagination in reverse. Instead of forecasting the farout future, he re-created the long-lost past. From a few hunks of bones he built dinosaurs. In the ashes of ancient camp fires he saw the life story of extinct societies. He re-created primitive artifacts from the flimsiest shards. Today, says...
...Encyclopaedia Britannica deals cursorily with the Neanderthals, merely giving their physical characteristics (thickset physiques, sloping foreheads, receding chins) and observing that they were an aberrant strain, extinct 50,000 years ago. With the skill of an artist (and not, as is often the case in attempts of this kind, a taxidermist), Golding re-creates the Neanderthals and the dawn mist in which they lived. To the eye they are stubby, smallish, powerful near apes, covered with reddish fur. But they are dimly intelligent, although their minds do not work like those of Homo sapiens. In addition to the simple tools...
Miss Cynthia Irwin, a Harvard graduate student, discovered the remains of a mastodon, an extinct elephant-like animal, together with scrapers and other human tools dating back some 30,000 years. Excited by the discovery, a number of U.S. archaeologists and paleontologists have left for El Horno - a site about ten miles from Puebla, Mexico - to examine the findings...
...industry gets into the Common Market, American executives are being thrown into increasingly intimate contact with Europe's managerial class-and are finding it a different breed. European industry, reports University of Wisconsin Professor David Granick. is run by a species of businessman almost extinct in the U.S.-men bound by strict traditions of social class, aloof toward subordinates, and profoundly skeptical of the U.S. notion that corporate management is a separate branch of knowledge that can be learned in business school...
...have always been called Rip by most of my male friends, Tony by most of my female friends, and Dodo (an extinct bird) by my grandchildren. Both my son Rip's and my forename is really Elmore. Rip is a nickname a Torn would receive, as surely as Dusty would be attached to the surname of Rhodes...