Word: reconstructed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thick Greenland icecap, gathering cores, or cylindrical samples, that provide a remarkably accurate record of Greenland's weather. The cores consist of layers of ice, each representing a year's precipitation. They have remained virtually unchanged for centuries. By analyzing these layers, scientists have been able to reconstruct a climatic history that reaches back for 100,000 years...
...test their theories, they engaged in some shrewd scientific detective work. Not only did they go through the usual painstaking steps of precise measurement, but they also ingeniously used the tiny fragments to reconstruct the creature's habits and habitats. Teeth, in particular, lend themselves to such paleontological probing...
After one of the longest political crises in its postwar history, Italy last week had a government again. It was headed by Mariano Rumor, the same man who 32 days earlier had seen his coalition of Socialists and Christian Democrats fall apart (TIME, July 18). Un able to reconstruct the old relationship because of a schism among the Socialists, Rumor this time built a monocolore, or one-party government from his own Christian Democrats...
Complete details of the latest disaster will not become known until after a joint Australian-American investigation. But the survivors meanwhile have begun to reconstruct a saga of heroism and horror...
...uary. He will dedicate himself to speech-making at fund-raising dinners to help pay off the party's campaign debt, which may reach as high as $7,000,000. He will press Larry O'Brien to stay on as National Democratic Committee Chairman to help reconstruct the party...