Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walk down towards Dunster House and you will find older couples-most of whom have just turned seventy-sitting in lawn chairs, talking quietly. Here you will find little trace of the hectic cocktails-dinner party syndrome for which the twenty-fifth reunion is famous...
...fascinatingly subtle contrast. A tall (6 ft. 1 in.), circumspect liberal Republican seven months younger than his bride, he is a scion of Eastern gentry who trace their bloodlines back to the Revolution. He served as one of the original Nader's Raiders, and his reticent charm, some friends believe, masks an incisive intelligence and healthy ambition. It is an American marriage to be reckoned with...
Each year New Jersey beaches are swept by a "red tide" of tiny organisms that redden the sea, give swimmers rashes and threaten the shore area's ecology and economy. Health officials trace this phenomenon to the "dead sea" outside New York Harbor, a region devoid of marine life where barges routinely dump the city's garbage and sludge (treated sewage). To worsen matters. New Jersey itself dumps sludge offshore, and so does Pennsylvania...
...Clear fingerprints impressed in the clay of ancient pots are rare," he conceded. Ancient potters, like modern, were at pains to smooth away any trace of their own hands. But in concealed places, on the underside of handles or inside spouts, where the potter gave the clay a last shaping touch, telltale prints can sometimes be found...
...coral and that sort of thing. It's just a dream experience. It isn't like anything else. You get your face down in the water and you feel like you're back home again. Maybe I'm related to a fish. I knew a guy who could trace his family tree back to the original lungfish that crawled out on land. Very snobbish fellow, by the way. [Laughter...