Word: madagascar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...satellite makes fifteen to twenty ground station contacts each day, Davis added, and it sends as many as 18 pictures in a single transmission. The five stations now used by Project Celescope are located in North Carolina, Madagascar, Chile, Ecuador, and Australia...
...Russian language at Wellesley, with side jobs as a lepidopterist in Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (plus a few more tennis lessons), and finally as a professor at Cornell from 1948 to 1958, Nabokov studied America, as a colleague at Cornell puts it, like someone "in Madagascar observing the natives." In 1945 he became an American citizen. They occupied a succession of rented houses?more or less bivouacked in the quarters of a different absentee professor each year ?partly for lack of cash, partly because Nabokov, having lost everything once, has absolutely no interest in acquiring physical possessions...
...UNDERSEA WORLD OF JACQUES COUSTEAU (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "Whales." The world-famed French oceanographer explores the depths off the coast of Madagascar in search of finback, sperm and killer whales...
...rhino-sized Diprotodon and giant kangaroo became extinct in Australia about 14,000 years ago. In Europe and Asia, the woolly rhinoceros and the woolly mammoth ceased to exist between 11,000 and 13,000 years ago, before the species disappeared in North America. Yet on Madagascar, the extinction of giant lemurs and pigmy hippopotamuses did not occur until within the past 1,000 years...
...section included a member of the Israeli government, as well as aspiring administrators from India, Japan, Madagascar, South Africa, Peru, Canada, England, Scotland, Switzerland, and France. In addition, we had three lawyers, a Peace Corps veteran, an ordained minister and a former Princeton football captain...