Word: tailed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some notable specimens: the world's richest collection of fossil bones of tritheledonts, the group of reptiles most closely related to mammals; a large number of sphenodonts, small, lizard-like reptiles whose only living relative is the tuatara of New Zealand; yard-long crocodiles with spindly legs, a whiplike tail and a sleek body that Olsen calls "the cheetahs of their time"; a trail of penny-size footprints left by a dinosaur no bigger than a sparrow...
...practitioners of voodoo, Haiti's folk religion. Baby Doc cruised through the streets in a BMW, surrounded by a bevy of armed outriders. In a radio broadcast to the country, he used an old Creole saying to brag, "I am here, strong and firm as a monkey's tail...
Thirty seconds later, Fusco tipped the puck past Gordon and over the goal line at the tail end of a goal-mouth scramble...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti--Mobs rioted, buildings were burned and Jean-Claude Duvalier, president-for-life, imposed a state of siege yesterday and told the people of his impoverished land that he was in control, "firm as a monkey's tail...
Duvalier said in a radio broadcast after the Speakes statement: "The president is here, strong, firm as a monkey's tail. My dear friends, because of wild rumors and nonsense circulated by good-for-nothings for some times [sic] now, I'm obliged to take to the streets...