Word: outback
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wimbledon. It seems as if nearly every Australian child grows up brandishing a tennis racket, but it is not an easy sport for an aborigine to crack. Aborigines are Australia's forgotten people, living mainly in shanty settlements at the edge of inland and outback towns. Still, there was no denying Evonne. She began training with the Barellan tennis club when she was six. Four years later the club president, a retired local farmer named Bill Kurtzmann, entered her in a tournament in nearby Naranndera. It turned out that there was no youth division, so the ten-year...
...ostrichlike emus in a single sweep. Thousands of rare giant green sea turtles have also lately been killed for their oil, a prime ingredient of some skin creams. What Australians are doing to the kangaroo, the country's unofficial symbol, was recently summed up by an outback sheep farmer who bragged: "On my spread, we've shot 20,000 'roos in the last four years and there's still lots left." Also vanishing, at least in wild areas: the koala "Teddy bear" and the Tasmanian wolf, a zebra-striped, carnivorous marsupial that often hops kangaroo-like...