Word: extinct
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fossil-rich wasteland. What Lawson found exceeded his wildest hopes: fragments of huge wing bones imbedded in a sandstone outcropping in a remote part of the park. Now, after comparing the bones with the remains of similar creatures found elsewhere, Lawson has announced that they belong to a giant extinct flying reptile, or pterosaur (literally, winged lizard), with a wing span estimated to have been 51 ft. That would make it the largest known flying creature ever to inhabit the earth...
...legislatures. Connecticut's Ella Grasso, the first woman to become Governor without benefit of her husband's coattails, is a symbol of the growing numbers of women who seek and win elective office. Optimists may be an endangered species, but news like this keeps them from becoming extinct. Political Analyst Ben Wattenberg (The Real America), among the hardiest of the species, argues that Americans are "a tough-minded, wise, shrewd people. They've coped with assassination, an awful Viet Nam War, city riots, political scandal and all the while made an enormous amount of material and attitudinal...
...dingo has sharply reduced sheep losses-and the population of the wild dog. But further gains may well be a Pyrrhic victory. A still incomplete, decade-long government study has already concluded that the dingo preys heavily on rabbits, wallabies and other grass-eating animals. If the dingo-becomes extinct, the herbivores will proliferate and compete more vigorously with Australia's sheep for pasturage. The result would be a far more serious threat to the sheep than is now posed by the dingoes themselves. Indeed, viewed with an ecologist's eye, the much maligned dingo seems...
...epoch of Hollywood's great, and great looking film comediennes-a group that extended from Carole Lombard and Constance Bennett to Jean Arthur and Lucille Ball-is as extinct as the Movietone newsreel. Robert Redford and Paul Newman, Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould, these are the happy couples who now hit it big at the box office. Audiences in search of funny girls have learned to forsake the theater for Valerie and Mary on the smaller screen. Mary opts for the soft approach. Every week, as Mary Richards, the effervescent assistant TV producer, she manages to discover fresh comic...
...need at least ten years aging before they might be countenanced on the diamond. It may be a century before products of the sandlots assimilate the Designated Hitter. Such gaudy perversions have me clinging to the Goldberg's Peanut Chews billboard which one adorned the left field wall in extinct Shibe Park's power alley. Still, there is nothing like the day-to-day exhilaration of a pennant race to lend life--whether it is endured in a crusty New England college or not a hot inner-city alley--a sharpness. Furthermore, I will be the first to castigate trivia...