Word: australian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would have won a few more French Opens, at least." She blends tinkering with her game with a methodical shortening of her schedule, playing a little less each year. She has bypassed the French Open, with its two weeks of endless running on clay, since 1988, and the Australian Open, in Down Under swelter that can reach 140 degreesF on court, since 1989. She takes a three-month spring break, plays no-pressure exhibitions in midsummer and enters a minimum number of tournaments to meet the rules. Next year, when many people expected that she would emphasize doubles, at which...
...Flood believes that the dogs served as an object of affection and a child substitute in a society that killed babies it could not afford to feed (the dogs foraged for themselves; they were probably also used for hunting). The second, and more profound, breakthrough: for the first time, Australian Aborigines mounted stone points onto shafts to form spears...
...course of the evening, Adam assumed the voice of an Australian zoologist, a gruff machine tank and a sarcastic robot named Marvin...
Before speaking as the Australian character from his nonfiction work Last Chance to See, (co-authored with Mark Carwardine), Adams began to excuse his faulty accent but then remembered his audience...
...from America, aren't you?" he asked. "I should apologize for the quality of my Australian accent, but you're not going to know the difference...