Word: walking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Uphill Fight. North Miamians can no longer walk across their lawns without crunching shells underfoot, and the snail outbreak may get still worse. Endowed with both male and female reproductive organs, the hermaphroditic snail multiplies at a phenomenal rate. In his authoritative study The Giant African Snail, University of Arizona Malacologist Albert R. Mead calculates that a single animal could theoretically produce 8 billion descendants in three years. Such spectacular proliferation requires a huge food supply-for example, Florida's luxuriant cash crops...
There's a distinct atmosphere surrounding Harvard's cross-country squad, and you can sense it the moment you walk into the track locker room at Dillon Field House...
...sorry young lady but you'll have to talk with the manager about that," replied the middle-aged man behind the counter. He fidgeted with some sales slips as he spoke, and he seemed about to walk away when the Cliffie regained her composure...
...Dandy Walk. The onset of the epidemic coincided with the end of the summer floods. The worst in the country's history, they polluted municipal water supplies, damaged sanitation facilities and dotted the Hanoi area with myriad mud puddles. And even the smallest will do for A. aegypti-"the water in a stalk of bamboo is enough to get them going," says one authority. They are among the most urbanized agents of epidemic: they breed and live in or near human habitation and readily, even preferentially, bite man. To boot, they are all but exclusively daylight and twilight feeders...
...date, at least, he seems to have a better shot at an Emmy than at the Rookie of the Year award. Not that O.J. has been a flop on the field. Buffalo Bills Coach John Rauch boasts that the only thing his fleet young halfback cannot do is walk on water. After two fitful performances, O.J. finally showed his wares last week, carrying the ball 24 times for 110 yds. and catching five passes -one for a touchdown-as the Bills defeated the Denver Broncos 41-28. But much of O.J.'s luster has been diminished by the brilliance...