Word: relicts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Almost Adam (William Morrow; 544 pages; $24), about australopiths, a group of small-brained but upright-walking human precursors whose most recent fossils are more than a million years old. Eschewing time machines and historical settings, both authors have opted to have modern paleoanthropologists come face to face with relict populations of early hominids in remote and unexplored corners of the world: the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan in Darnton's case, southern Kenya in Popescu...
...local elections since March I have demonstrated that, one and-a-half years after they endorsed the tax-limiting proposal, few have changed their minds on the issue. Nearly every town allowing change this year originally opposed the measure in November 1980 and every locality rejecting the relict this year supported Proposition 2 1/2 17 months...
...their army, Douglas MacArthur. They called him "the Napoleon of Luzon," and one spokesman told me that he "cut no more ice in this U.S. Army than a corporal." MacArthur was just an adviser to the Philippine Army, he said, not worth seeing. So I went to see this relict of history, this great soldier, now a field marshal in the Philippine Army...
...with racy puns, malapropisms and bureaucratese. He scales the evening's comic peak with the interpolated segment called New-Found-Land. Two Foreign Service officers enter the temporarily deserted committee room to discuss an American's application for British naturalization. The elder (Humphrey Davis) is a doddering relict from World War I who embarks on an excruciatingly elongated, hilarious account of how he once secured a cherished ?5 note from Lloyd George. The younger (Jacob Brooke) then launches on a bravura monologue about a train journey across the map of the U.S. that contains every old movie cliche...
Despite massive international relict efforts the worst drought in recorded African history has thus far claimed perhaps as many as 100,000 lives in northern Nigeria and in the "Sahel," or subSaharan, nations of Mauritania, Senegal Mali, Upper Volta, Niger and Chad. More than 1,000,000 hungry nomads are roaming the Sahel, surrounding its cities in a futile search for food. Nomads in Chad have been forced to eat leaves and bark to stay alive. In Nigerias parched Northeast, villagers pillage anthills to get at grain kernels that the ants have stored away...