Word: jumbo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Witness the golf team. They showed up at Braeburn Country Club in Newton yesterday, ready to take on area colleges in the Greater Boston Championships. They waited in the rain for anyone wearing an Eagle, an Engineer or a Jumbo uniform to appear But all they met was the club professional, who advised them that the match had been postponed...
...gulf is a fertile breeding ground for jumbo shrimp and more than 200 kinds of fish, including tuna and sea bass. Although the extent of damage to marine life is not yet known, dead fish are already washing ashore in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Some officials fear that the contamination may destroy a year's catch of some varieties...
...population explosion gathered force a generation ago, church leaders used all their clout to block the availability of modern contraceptives in the Catholic areas of the developing world. Now these same churchmen tour the globe by jumbo jet, pontificating on the widespread human misery and social chaos they have helped to create...
...soldiers are moved into military accommodations. Prefab wooden camps are being built outside Port Stanley, while the first "coastel," a barge stacked with metal freighter containers and able to house 930 men, has been installed. Construction of a new "strategic airport" that will be able to handle jumbo jets is scheduled to begin in October. Because no flights are allowed from Argentina, the Falklands are even more isolated than they were before the war. Visitors arriving by air must take a slow, cumbersome C-130 Royal Air Force Hercules transport plane from Ascension Island, 4,000 miles to the north...
...Indian poor. After the Lawrences wrote to the King of Belgium (1949), the King's administrators contacted the U.S. State Department, and the Lawrences were checked by the FBI. President Miguel Alemán of Mexico (1947) rejected TIME'S portrait of him and instead returned a jumbo 4-ft. by 5-ft. picture of his own choosing...