Word: acree
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A Celebration of One Thousand Years of British Gardening," includes architectural plans of medieval and Tudor landscapes, assorted tools of the trade (including the first mechanical lawnmower, a green-and-red contraption patented in 1830), and paintings that preserve the image of estates long since lost to the taxman and...
Man has always found a use for new lands, however hostile. A century before Apollo, Secretary of State William Seward was being castigated for wasting $7.2 million to buy a worthless, frozen wilderness. Today, most Americans would consider Alaska quite a bargain, at 2? an acre.
But 1969 proved to be a temporary turning point. In that year a Peruvian government undertook to save the animals by creating a 16,000-acre preserve called Pampa Galeras in the windswept highlands in the southern part of the country. Peru also signed a pact with Bolivia that banned...
Oxfam will use most of the money to help 42,000 Vietnamese refugees who are presently living on the 75-acre Pulau Bidong island next to Malaysia.
Behind the officers--a few of the 500-plus who were bussed in for the occasion--stood the containment building which will enclose the nuclear core, that energy-and-radiation-producing network of fuel rods, uranium pellets and cooling pipes. The containment, looking out over Long Island Sound, its grey...