Word: glacial
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...diprotodons, the marsupial equivalents of large, slow-moving, herbivorous beasts such as tapirs, lumbered inoffensively through the lush vegetation that covered Australia at the end of the last glacial period, and they managed to stay alive long enough to be seen and possibly eaten by the first primitive men to reach Australia. But Australia began to have the long droughts that it still suffers today, and this was hard on the diprotodons, which were neither bright nor adaptable...
...they made their First Base Camp. Towering above was the Everest trinity: Lhotse (27,890) and Nuptse (25,680), joined by a razor edge; beyond, Everest itself, plumed in a wisp of vapor that streams from the summit at 29,002 ft. The three giants together enclose a vast glacial basin known as the Western Cwm (a Welsh word that rhymes with tomb). This was the key to the climb...
...hunters who lived 10,000 years ago. Shay went bone-hunting with Jerry Ainsworth, a student at Eastern New Mexico College. Near a small stream called Blackwater Draw, they found the skeleton of a "dire wolf," a husky, toothy, carnivorous beast that died out toward the end of the glacial period...
...sport. Conversely, defeat lays bare a man's most homicidal instincts. Legend has it that after a chess game a prince of Bavaria was brained by a son of the King of France. Reshevsky appears impervious to these emotional tides. He is both admired and detested for his glacial self-control. "He acts as though he can save any game, no matter how hopeless the position," complained one master bitterly...
...adolescent brother & sister whose deep affection for each other is colored with inevitable tragedy. Adapted by France's Jean Cocteau from his 1929 novel, Les Enfants Terribles, The Strange Ones is a baroque, grotesque, always fascinating excursion into a dark-bright dream world, set off by a glacial commentary delivered in the author's own dry, precise voice...