Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whistling of desert winds and the popping noise of exhausts as teen-age dragsters race their cars. But Palmdale has been lifted, quite literally, out of obscurity. Scientists have recently discovered that it is in the center of a 120-mile-long, kidney-shaped area of land that rose as much as ten inches in the early 1960s. The phenomenon has earned the desert town a dubious notoriety. The Palmdale bulge, as the uplift is called, could be an early warning signal of a major-and potentially disastrous-earthquake...
Recent studies have shown that the ground rose noticeably before the 1971 San Fernando quake that killed 58 people in California's last major trembler. Before a 1964 quake that destroyed much of Niigata, Japan, the ground lifted two inches, and the Chinese discovered an elevation of the land in Liaoning province before the Manchurian earthquake of February...
Marilyn the Wild is flawed by its own rampaging vitality. A Charyn character cannot simply put on a coat: Es ther Rose's "fist burrowed into her sleeve like the skull of a groundhog...
This summer, ultimate frisbee stars from colleges across the country will face off in the first East-West ultimate frisbee college all-star game, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif...
Rounding out the singles matches, Jim Levy won easily over Bruin Larry Rose (6-2, 6-1), and Andy Chaikovsky had to go to three sets before finishing off John Harkavy by a 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 count. The doubles matches went equally as well, as Harvard swept to three solid victories...