Word: furred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sudden disappearance that is compatible with the warmblooded theory: at the end of the Cretaceous era, about 70 million years ago, the earth's climate rapidly cooled. Cold-blooded reptiles, such as turtles and crocodiles, were able to find cozy nooks and survive the winters by hibernating; small, fur-covered mammals built warm nests. Dinosaurs could not. Too big to find protective caves or burrows in which to hibernate, they stayed out in the cold and died...
...fast start too for the Russian fans, who turned out in strength at every event with red flags and bushy fur hats. Their ace speed skater Tatiana Averina won a gold in the 1,000-meter race to go along with two bronze medals in the 500 and 1,500. Galina Stepanskaya, 27, a last-minute addition to the Soviet speed skating team, took the 1,500-meter race. The favored figure-skating duo, Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev, though performing slightly off their usually impeccable form, easily won the gold medal. Also, the juggernaut Russian hockey team beat...
...Virginia, a superliberated black law student who next week will announce her candidacy for Congress. Ginny will also continue to suffer the affections of Clyde, a jive-spouting lay-about who buys a new Buick with silver-fox fur seats because "I'm into comfort...
Clarkson said that she had begun wearing her fur-coat to bed and, in an interview yesterday, Bossert described finding ice in a shower stall...
While the industry is promoting furs as a bargain and stressing the fact that its prices have risen less sharply than other luxury goods, sales have also been brisk among such top-of-the-line items as $10,000 chinchillas and $25,000 sables. Says Jerome McCarthy, owner of Chicago's tony Thomas E. McElroy Co.: "For a while [the rich] weren't showing their wealth, but now they're indulging themselves." So, too, is the credit-card set, which today includes an ever growing number of liberated women earning their own incomes. As one Manhattan fur...