Word: floras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going gets tough I can think back on all those fish I caught. On God and politics-- Distance running is the same as religion. Justice will triumph. On last year's captain Bill Okerman-- Okerman is staging a deadly war with rigor mortis. On two top Northeastern runners, the Flora twins--You know, I'm a gardener during the summer, and two twins named Flora put the finishing touches on us. Something is just not right. I just swear when I see them. Damn their souls. If we had some of that weed spray, I would have sprayed...
...land of cotton, Spanish moss and magnolias has other distinctive and less felicific flora-and fauna-that can all but grab the unwary. Some examples that would catch a Yankee...
...lions clambering aboard the ark. The budget did not permit construction of the ark nor the assembling of all God's creatures. For the Creation story, Heyman wove together spectacular color footage of the sun and stars, flowing lava, beasts on the Kenya highlands and fish and flora along an ocean floor. In Eden, Adam and Eve are discreetly nude, and without navels. Heyman insists that he will film every jot and tittle of the Law of Moses, but his project will be well into the 1990s before he faces the challenge of dramatizing the doctrinal letters...
...fathers hope, there is oil and gas in the ground worth $50-$60 million, Houston would thus benefit from a large windfall. As Brownco and the city saw it, the exploratory wells could be drilled on a slant from the park's maintenance area without appreciable danger to flora and fauna. As for the proviso forbidding commercial development, the city's lawyers were satisfied that since a handsome slice of revenues from any producing well would be earmarked for park improvements, this would nicely satisfy the test that the land be used for "park purposes...
Head coach Bill McCurdy noted that "the wind knocked all the times out of kilter," and applauded the smart race run by Jeff Campbell in the mile. "This was a critical race and Campbell followed their runner, John Flora, throughout, and let the wind take its toll on him. Then he opened up and outkicked Flora at the end," McCurdy said...