Word: skeleton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then, on the 41st day, a young American named Gabrielle Lyon--a writer, as it happened, not a professional scientist--came upon a few small bones embedded 500 ft. up in the 92 million-year-old stone. Within a few days, the explorers had unearthed the virtually complete skeleton of a previously unknown predator. It was a 27-ft.-long monster similar in size to the North American Allosaurus but far leaner and presumably quicker as well; the scientists named it Deltadromeus agilis, or "agile delta runner." A few days later, Sereno came up with an even more spectacular find...
Right now, all that sits on the Magellan site 8,000 feet high in the arid mountains of Chile are a couple of foundations and one pod-shaped skeleton...
...dream city, a Deco-delicious Manhattan. Spider (voiced by Susan Sarandon) here has the melancholy hauteur of a Garbo femme fatale; and the Centipede, obnoxious in the book, is now a Leo Gorcey type (voiced by Richard Dreyfuss), who gets a shot at redemption by fighting a shipful of skeleton pirates straight out of Ray Harryhausen's The 7th Voyage of Sinbad...
...highways and the towns that line them have long since been eclipsed by the Interstate and strips of EconoLodges and Burger Kings. For modern cruise-control motorists, the fractured skeleton of the U.S. highway system has been relegated to the realm of the cultural archaeologist, a reminder of how Americans used to travel before the age of the jug handle and the clover leaf...
...This guy came out with his head cut off, so we started running and fell to the floor," said Jermaine I. Hollins, II, a Graham and Parks student dressed as a "vampire skeleton...