Word: hardier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each workday morning at 6:45, Daniel Jackson Evans, Governor of Washington State, leads the hardier members of his staff in a brisk trot around the Olympia High School track. In his first ten months in office, Republican Evans, 40, has also foundoccasion to hold a press conference in a swimming pool-leaving reporters wetter than wiser-break trail for a slalom contest, scale Mount Rainier and, when time permits, sail his sloop...
Flowered spikes of lavender blossoms give the water hyacinth a distinctly delicate air. But no aquatic plant is healthier or hardier. Few multiply as fast; in the summer months in the tropics, the hyacinth doubles its number once every 30 days. The plant is so prolific that once it takes hold, floating carpets choke rivers, canals, lakes and bayous. It hinders boat traffic and uses up oxygen needed by fish. After years of trying to keep the hyacinth at bay, a group of weed-control experts and navigation engineers-the Hyacinth Control Society-met in Palm Beach to discuss their...
...snake you identified as a boa is actually an African rock python. The python usually makes a hardier, longer-lived, more interesting, gentler pet than the boa, and is much larger...
...hybrid dogwood. "Eddie's White Wonder," sold by Ohio's Wayside Gardens, is a cross between the Northwest's magnificent Cornus Nuttalli and the East's hardier Cornus Florida...
...antitrust prosecution), by several states and by some stockholders, but the recent record shows that the ICC usually follows its examiners' recommendations. It has approved six other rail mergers in the last five years and rejected none, seems wisely determined to regroup competition-pressed U.S. roads into a hardier handful of regional superroads...