Word: fora
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...region has proved to be an anthropological mother lode. In a basin several kilometers deep, walls of strata lie exposed, many-layered sandwiches of volcanic ash and ancient sediments containing the remains of complete prehistoric environments. Organizing a team of fossil hunters, Leakey established a base camp at Koobi Fora, a mound at the inboard end of a long, crocodile-infested sand spit that curves out into the lake. Then he began following his nose?with remarkable success. Turkana has yielded the richest accumulation of remnants of man and his predecessors ever found in one area...
...filly in the ring below, then turned the microphone over to the man beside him. "Well-1-1-1 . . ." began the second man in a rolling baritone, "who'll give 10,000 to starta? I got five, six, seven. All righty nowya, who'll give 10,000 fora, who'll bid 10,000 dolla billa, billa, billya, willya, willya...