Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daddy, why are all the players running around before the hike? And why is the quarterback putting on a striped shirt like the referee...
Even if the hike in temperature were smaller-say only a degree or so-the effects might not be minor. Applied year round to the entire earth, such an increase could shift whole forests, grasslands and deserts. At the polar regions, enough ice could melt to elevate sea levels by as much as 5 m (16 ft.). That would eventually inundate low-lying coastal areas round the world, including parts of The Netherlands and the Atlantic seaboard...
...contract proposal calls for a $500 salary increase during the first year, a three per cent hike in the second year and another $500 increase during the third year...
...great contract, but it's liveable," Ralph Merigliano, a negotiator for the National Association of Letter Carriers said, adding that a lower salary hike with increased job security was preferable to a bigger salary increase with less security...
...explored and written about the Amazon, North America and Africa. The Caribbean was the stage for his 1975 poetic narrative of turtle fishermen, Far Tortuga. His latest work, The Snow Leopard, springs from a 250-mile hike that he and Field Biologist George Schaller made five years ago in the Himalayas. Schaller (The Mountain Gorilla, The Serengeti Lion) pushed tirelessly through icy passes and over the Tibetan plateau to observe the rutting habits of the bharal, a wild goatlike animal better known as the blue sheep. He also hoped for a glimpse of the snow leopard, a creature so rare...