Word: flora
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...purchase of the tract safeguards a wide variety of exotic flora and fauna. Within its boundaries are cypresses so large that eight men can barely join hands around their trunks, huge stands of water tupelo and witch hazel and thick forests of hickory, iron wood and beech. Fish such as the Atlantic sturgeon and crystal darter thrive in the waters of the new preserve, which also provides one of the only known homes of the yellow-blotched sawback turtle, a rare species that sports two humps on its back like a camel...
...same Flora-Flora-Bickford combination ran one-two-three in the GBC meet, dashing Harvard's first place hopes. "They've been making life miserable for us for a long time," McCurdy said...
...impressive run that closely paralleled the results of last Tuesday's Greater Boston Championships (GBC) meet, Huskie top guns Bob Flora, Bruce Bickford and John Flora ran one-two-three for an unusual 24:16 dead-heat finish...
...Northeastern Horticultural and Cultural Society did it to us again," Harvard coach Bill McCurdy said yesterday in reference to John and Bob Flora, identical twins from Northeastern who took first and third respectively in the five-mile event. John's time is a course record...
Stubborn persistence in trying to follow the film's plot may raise as many questions as it answers. The following, however, is clear: a sadistic old Nazi named Christian Szell (Olivier) is hiding out in luxury among the flora and fauna of Uruguay. Szell has kept snug on fees he collected from Jews in concentration camps. To help them escape the gas ovens, he first accepted gold-often fillings from teeth, which he obligingly pulled himself-then diamonds. The diamonds are stashed in a Manhattan safe-deposit box, watched over by Szell's brother, who, as the movie...