Word: diamondback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After being weighed, the snakes are dumped in a great braided mass into chest-high octagonal white plywood stockades, called pits. There they can be safely ogled and photographed in all their slithering, tongue-flicking, fang- baring, rattling, coiling, head-rearing glory. The Western diamondback, Crotalus (castanet) atrox (fearful), is indeed a horrible-wonderful creature. Its head is broad and flat, and its close-set, silver gray eyes with black pupils seem fixed and furious. A dry, cool skin of interlocking gray-and-brown diamond pattern leads to a pyramid of hard keratin nubs, acquired at the tail after successive...
...decision [not to fire Driesell] insulted the entire campus population," said PSA member Stuart Morris. UMD Diamondback...
...marijuana is bad, it's because something else is wrong," said another student. UMD Diamondback...
Playboy photographer David Chan spent several days on campus just prior to the rally selecting six women from the university for the special issue. He was to return later to take the pictures that will appear in the magazine. The UMD Diamondback...
...sentenced to 20 months to seven years in jail April 6 by a Washington, D.C., superior court judge for lying under oath about receiving documents ordering him to make repairs to rental properties he owned there. --The University of Maryland Diamondback...