Word: tyrannosaurus
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...leads from socialism to capitalism." Poland and Hungary are pressing ahead with sweeping reforms that promise to disprove the theory that totalitarian regimes cannot change. Czechoslovakia, East Germany and Bulgaria tinker with old formulas in hopes they can stave off a reckoning with the new. Only Rumania, under the tyrannosaurus-like leadership of Nicolae Ceausescu, stubbornly pursues the Stalinist agenda without obstruction. As each country feels its way through this difficult period, the competing ambitions are putting considerable strain on the bloc...
...crouch low near the water's edge, you can see in the shallows of $ the high tide an awesome spectacle that has been recurring since before Tyrannosaurus rex roamed the earth: the mating dance of the horseshoe crab, one of nature's ugliest and kinkiest creatures...
...truly embarrassing thing is that after so much time dealing with protests encampments, letters, fiery speeches, loaded accusations, the president's office still handles the situation as if it has the small brain of a tyrannosaurus...
...Geological Survey, uncovered a cache of 180 dinosaur bones in Alaska, several hundred miles farther north than the creatures had previously been found. Among the fossils are skeletal remains of hadrosaurs, plant-eating duck-billed dinosaurs that stood up to 15 ft. high, and the teeth of a Tyrannosaurus-type carnivore...
Even those dinosaurs known to have proportionately larger brains like tyrannosaurus may have simply been too massive to survive on land. How could their bulk have been lethal? According to one suggestion that many weekend athletes can identify with, the dinosaurs suffered from slipped disks, which left them unable to forage for food. Great heft could even trigger infertility. In 1946 a paleontologist concluded that because large animals do not shed excess heat as efficiently as small animals do, a temperature increase of just 2 degrees F could have baked the considerable testicles of a ten-ton male dinosaur enough...