Word: foray
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cousins from some 3,000 doctors, and eventually expanded by the author into a briskly selling 1979 book of the same name. Despite complaints from other doctors who studied the Cousins case and said that the author had misrepresented the nature and severity of his disease, Cousins' amateur foray into medicine eventually led to his appointment as a senior lecturer on the faculty at the UCLA medical school...
...Angola on "reconnaissance and information-gathering" missions against rebel groups like the African National Congress (ANC), which is known to have bases there. But the captured leader of the commando squad, Captain Wynand Petrus du Toit, during a press conference in Luanda gave a very different version of the foray, in which two commandos were killed (the others escaped...
...humans trod the earth in the company of hulking dinosaurs, and evolution is a false idol. Although they have lost legal battles in Arkansas, Texas and most recently Louisiana to require their teachings in public school biology classes, the creationists continue their attack against evolution. For their latest foray, they have enlisted the aid of a favored if surprising ally: the bombardier beetle, a half-inch insect found near streams and ponds around the world. Their case is presented in a new book for children titled Bomby, the Bombardier Beetle, published by the Institute for Creation Research in El Cajon...
...village in upstate New York, to the tidy, stultifying suburban home of Aunt Mona, the late husband's sister. Stunned by her losses and longing for the old days "before everybody started dying," Justin mopes and takes solitary bike rides through this alien Yankee territory. On one such foray, she discovers a tumbledown hut by the side of a pond and decides to investigate. When she sees a woman inside, lying on a blanket and reading a book, Justin screams...
...produce a new child's camera that sells for $25 to $44. In its viewfinder is an indicator that shows a red flag if the child is holding the camera crooked. Fisher-Price has long made a play camera, but the one this year was its first foray into the real thing, and it is selling well...