Word: quickers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...1940s, medical labs in California imported thousands of African clawed frogs to be used in pregnancy tests for women. Rabbits, however, proved quite significantly quicker and better, so the redundant frogs were released, and jumped along into mud dy coastal waterways and flood control basins from Santa Barbara to San Diego. It was an act of kindness that should have been avoided. Feeding insatiably on fish eggs, minnows, insects and tadpoles of other frog species, the aggressive African guests have upset the ecological balance in a five-county area...
...protect herself against physical and emotional attack." Though self-defense is still an adequate excuse for violence only in immediate, severe danger, now, notes New Jersey Lawyer Robert Ansell, "the cumulative effect of beatings on a woman's consciousness is often considered. A woman may well be allowed quicker resort to a weapon than a man." That worries some lawmen. Says Sheriff Lawrence Schmies of Waupaca: "I wonder if these people know what they're doing. If they get their way, there's going to be a lot of killings...
Actually, it was even quicker than that. Forced to desperate lengths, the Crimson took to the air on its ensuing possession, but it didn't take long for George Rapp to pull off an interception for the Elis...
...Quicker than you can say "Robert L. Isom," Ivy League football became as thick as a Quincy House tapioca Saturday, as Yale, Brown and Dartmouth all posted wins...
...second half juniors John Hsiao and David Updike replaced starters Lee Nelson and Walter Diaz at the striker positions in an effort to produce a quicker short-passing attack. The result was better pressure by the entire Crimson offense and Sanacore's goal...