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Word: pollens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...singer intones a long text and creates several beautiful "sand paintings" by arranging patterns of pollen, meal, crushed flowers and charcoal on a canvas of sand or buckskin. He directs the patient to sit on each painting while he conducts a ceremonial treatment, and then the paintings-and presumably the sick man's problems-are destroyed section by section...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Navajo Psychotherapy | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

gather around its pollen: that the moon...

Author: By James D. Blum, | Title: A Portrait of Grief and Pride | 5/3/1972 | See Source »

Investigating the site themselves, Tidwell and his colleagues found two more fossilized palm logs. Near by, in the same geological formation, an oil company discovered ancient palm pollen. Other scientists, highly skeptical of the purported age of these finds, contended that they could easily have been washed down into the older sediment from higher and younger geological formations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Primeval Palms | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

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