Word: humped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first sound of firing, Deaver ducked. The President's grin vanished. He looked startled, bewildered. Instinctively, Agent Parr pushed Reagan's head down, shoved him hard through the open car door. Reagan's head struck the roof of the doorway. Both men landed on the transmission hump ahead of the rear seat, Parr on top of the President. "Take off!" shouted Parr to the driver. "Just take...
...tiny winding passageways, moistened with glandular secretions. As the camel loses water, the secretions dry and form an absorbent crust. This crust soaks up moisture coming from the lungs. During inhalation, the stored moisture is carried back into the lungs. In short, the camel saves water not in its hump but in the folds of its prodigious shnoz, which cover an area of roughly 1,100 sq. cm, vs. only 12 sq. cm for the average human...
...little hill in the middle of the field (I could never understand why he stood there--right where he was most likely to be hit in the head with one of the pucks), who is called the guard. Anyway, the old guy made the guard leave the hump, which didn't make the crowd too happy. Some new guy, who looked just like the first guy, climbed the hillock to take over. After that, not much happened...