Word: flora
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breaks and the rotten luck all you want, but the competition doesn't get any easier. Each year there are heavies like Princeton and UMass to contend with, Providence has recruited another boatload of Irish hordes, and perennial top guns such as Kurt Alitz of Army and the Flora brothers combine to make life exciting, if also often miserable, for the Crimson...
...chimera, the griffin, the manticore and the sphinx are familiar fauna that flourish outside traditional biology. Now it appears that unfamiliar flora grow outside of conventional botany. Or so says the protean Leo Lionni, 67, teacher, painter, sculptor, former art director of FORTUNE and author of a dozen delightful children's books. To illustrate, Lionni has literalized Marianne Moore's "imaginary gardens with real toads in them"-and then removed the toads. What remains is a series of never-were "parallel plants," a vegetable kingdom with members rooted beyond the fences of nature and logic...
...words of Harvard coach Bill McCurdy, Northeastern top gun John Flora "blossomed" on the way to first place with a blazing 23:39 finish. Bill Roach of Boston College finished second at a safe distance at 24:25, followed by a Brandeis duo consisting of Buddy Bostic (24:32) and Don Finelli...
...Flora of Northeastern pulled in fifth at 24:38, which was far from his best performance. Dick Hayden followed closely at sixth, four seconds later...
...potential broader social or ethical implications of initiating this line of research--of its role, as a possible prelude to longer-range, broader-scale genetic engineering of the fauna and flora of the planet including ultimately, man...Shall we take into our hands our own future evolution...