Word: specimen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Patterson led the 1971 expedition to Kenya that unearthed the jawbore of a five-million-year-old ancestor of modern man, Australopithecus. At that time, it was the oldest known Australopithecus specimen...
...founding mother of The New Yorker. She was also a gardener, a fiercely dedicated grubber of New England soil, an avid and acerbic consumer of seed catalogues. She had readjust about everything written about greenery and had strong opinions on every specimen from azalea to zinnia. So strong that Katharine S. White managed to sow in the least rustic of magazines a classic series of green thoughts: on herbs and weeds, trees and seeds, pedigreed blooms and wildflowers. Her articles were written with elegance and precision, and they deserve a place with such horticultural classics as Charles Sprague Sargent...
...Ivan's Best" sits proudly on the tailgate of a pickup truck as people line up to have their picture taken with it. When the specimen is finally sliced open, Bright thinks it could feed 200 people. One other just dessert for the citizens of Hope, which calls itself "the Watermelon Capital of the World": Bright's belly buster surpassed the 197-pounder raised by North Carolina's Ed Weeks in 1975, which is listed in the 1979 Guinness Book of World Records...
...were a nice and understanding individual, I would excuse her as a member of an older generation. But this brand of gross insensitivity, especially coming from a self-appointed mouthpiece for human issues, precludes forgiveness. When I enter a room I do not present myself as a willing sociological specimen for anyone's calipers...
...going to be pre-empted twice in March. You can't build an audience that way. Bill Paley told me that he is very proud of our show and wishes more people would watch it." Sounding like the character he plays, Houseman adds: "But I'm the specimen that is trotted out to show how respectable CBS is. I am token quality, and I am not overflowing with gratitude...