Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skins lie on great wooden beds that slide out with the surging and lachrymatory bouquet of mothballs. The rest of the monotreme family is represented by spiny echidnas, one rack above--also from Australia, of an ant-eating predilection. The larger delegation is of marsupials, creatures that spend a portion of their pre-natal existences in their mothers' pouches. The kangaroos are small and flat and sad-looking, their once-powerful tails somewhat dessicated by this umbrageous and horizontal, decidedly scientific, afterlife...
...they perform just as well. Indeed, in Idaho, Texas, Oklahoma and New York City, the GM TPC-Spec radial qualifies as a snow tire. Recently the National Safety Council, after some prodding by GM, announced that tire performance in snow is determined by tread configuration; since the center-tread portion of GM's tire resembles that of a snow tire, its performance presumably would be similar...
...Washington to extend the revolution south of its border, to Latin America--the answer was no...So wouldn't it be more useful for historians henceforth to refer to this not as the 'American Revolution' but as a quite natural movement in favor of the independence of the American portion of the British Empire...
Steady business clients now comprise about 25 per cent of Mulberry's business. Before they amounted to an insignificant portion of the total business, Procaccini said...
...sworn to uphold the principles of the Franco state and refused to promise change in his inaugural address. The amnesty Juan Carlos announced last week for political prisoners has been justly denounced by the leaders of the democratic opposition as a travesty, since it frees only a small portion of the prisoners and allows the regime to decide whether specific prisoners should be released or held as "terrorists". Furthermore, opposition political parties are still not allowed to assemble or meet with foreign newsmen openly; to prevent a press conference the police raided a Socialist party headquarters last week and threatened...