Word: spoor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stimuli rather than the most important thing, which is something to take home in your head." In the Company of Men is the toxic antidote to such disposable entertainment. Love it or loathe it, the picture sticks to you like guilt sweat after adulterous sex. It leaves a little spoor trail. Food for thought? No, a banquet for debate and denial...
...such, the innocuous-seeming creature and its curvy spoor mark the threshold of a critical interlude in the history of life. For the Cambrian is a period distinguished by the abrupt appearance of an astonishing array of multicelled animals - animals that are the ancestors of virtually all the creatures that now swim, fly and crawl through the visible world. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...know, there's a Simpsons episodewhere Homer needs to watch a video about drunkdriving and it's a spoor, really gory and violent.And there's a pan of the audience and everyone isvery disgusted except for Homer, who's laughing,and then they show his thoughts and he's saying'That's funny because it's not me.' I don't knowthese people. It kind of sucks but I'm glad it'snot happening...
Suicide was hardly a concern of Puller's in the summer of 1968. Back then he was trying his hardest to stay alive. Booby traps tormented him and the other soldiers deployed in the coastal region near Danang known as the Riviera. The devices were the spoor, primitive and deadly, of a mostly invisible enemy. Some were as simple as nails slathered with excrement pushed through the bottoms of discarded C-ration cans. But the booby trap Puller stepped on, while in full flight from a squad of advancing North Vietnamese regulars, was made with a howitzer shell. Puller described...
...trigger earthquakes along neighboring segments, possibly as far west as San Bernardino and nearly as far north as Bakersfield. Result: the long-feared Big One -- an earthquake of magnitude 8, five times as powerful as Landers -- on the doorstep of the populous Los Angeles Basin. Now, in the seismic spoor of the Landers earthquake, scientists have found reason to suspect that the timetable for this disaster may have been fast-forwarded...