Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gretchen Spruance of Philadelphia, seeded number one, and Marigold Edwards, a former New Zealand champ and now second-ranked player in the United States, lead the tourney's 32 entries...
...fact, I just cleaned the sink for the sixth time today, I got so fidgety (it was 2 p.m. at the time). What we have here is an existence, nothing else. There's really nothing to hold people here and I often think of going to New Zealand or Canada or Australia...
...virtually leveled by quakes, with heavy loss of life (some 1,450 died in the 1931 catastrophe). Lying along the "circle of fire," a ring of volcanoes and seismic fault lines that encircles the Pacific from the Aleutians down through the western rim of the Americas to New Zealand and up through Japan, Central America is frequently shaken by geologic turbulence...
Within five years, Luther was succeeded by Reo Fortune, a New Zealand psychologist. Mead met him on her way home from Samoa, and when the ship landed in England, was so deeply engrossed in talk with him that she did hot even see Luther waiting on the dock to greet her. Seven years later Reo was replaced by British Anthropologist Gregory Bateson under oddly similar circumstances. Emerging from a joint study trip to Kenakatem in New Guinea, Margaret and Reo joined Gregory in the nearby village of Kankanamun to compare notes for a few days. Though they had not previously...
...project so far has taken 15 years. Supplement Editor R.W. Burchfield, a native of New Zealand and a teacher at St. Peter's College, Oxford, has had nearly 100 reader-scribes scouring fiction, nonfiction, newspapers and scientific journals from all over the English-speaking world in search of references to their assigned words. Some of the readers worked for nothing, while most freelanced for about $1 an hour. The oldest was a cleric in his 90s who is also listed as a contributor to the first O.E.D. The most prolific was a British book reviewer, Marghanita Laski, who supplied...