Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Parker's crew won a one-length-plus triumph over the New Zealand Olympic squad in the Challenge Cup final, despite catching a crab early in the race...
When Borg was 14, he started to travel extensively with a junior squad of Sweden's Davis Cup hopefuls. At 15, in his first match against a professional, he defeated New Zealand's Onny Parun, 25. A good student (4.4 average on a 5.0 scale), he left high school at age 16 to turn pro. Today he possesses one of the world's most famous lucky-charm beards, his annual Wimbledon growth, but he wasn't old enough to shave the first time someone approached him for an autograph. "I was 14 and I was so proud when they asked...
...volcanoes on the earth's surface. Many of them, times Mount St. Helens and other volcanoes of the American North west, rim the Pacific along the so-called Ring of Fire, which sweeps from the tip of South America north to the Aleutians and Japan, down to New Zealand. More are hidden under the sea. The ancients were convinced that eruptions occurred because of the anger of the gods; today's scientists have a more modern theory. It is generally believed that the giant, continent-size plates forming the earth's outer shell crunch together in certain...
...unarmed Long March 3 missiles lifted off from the remote Xinjiang region and traveled some 6,000 miles to a target zone near the Solomon Islands in the Pacific. There, a flotilla of 18 Chinese tracking ships was joined by kibitzing vessels from the U.S., the U.S.S.R., France, New Zealand and Australia. The observers took note of the successful splashdowns with a healthy respect...
...theater and myth. The South American Tupinamba tribe would take a prisoner of war, make him consort with a woman of their tribe, then allow the woman to bear a child so that they could increase the tragedy by slaughtering both the prisoner and his baby. Sometimes in New Zealand, when a chieftain was killed during a war between two tribes, hostilities were broken off while the body of the leader was chopped up by his opponents, roasted and devoured. Among the southern Slavs a mother has been known to ay her infant son down in the cradle to sleep...