Word: lizard
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...three claws protruding from each of the wings of these ancient birds. Resembling the talons of a contemporary eagle, these razor-sharp, miniature scythes were obviously better suited for catching and slicing up prey than for scampering up the trunks of trees. Thus, Ostrom suggests, Archaeopteryx's lizard-like forebears probably launched themselves into the air from the ground-not from the limbs of ancient trees...
...developing sense of community, the range of black youth is enormously diverse. The black young, after all, number almost 11 million. There are Black Panthers, black nationalists and separatists, scions of the bourgeoisie, sharecroppers' sons throughout the rural South, ghetto hustlers in candy-blue trousers and lizard shoes ("fly vines"). There are students at white colleges who are bent less on integrating than on helping their own people, students at black colleges who differ radically with their parents' conceptions of blackness...
...grizzled old Westerner stares longingly at the Gila monster. Reaching slowly and cautiously down, the prospector has the lizard shot right out of his hand. "You peckerwoods just raised hell with our supper," he complains as two grungy rounders advance on him. "It's just like you said, Hogue," says one, "there's enough water for two but not for three." They rob him of his canteen and leave...