Word: domaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That idea grew to obsess Ickes and, until McKay, the Interior Department. In 1935, under Ickes, all public lands were closed to public settlement. Thenceforth the pattern was plain: the public domain was for the Government, not the public. The result: 54% of the eleven Western states is still federal land, much of it undeveloped and unproductive. Nearly 100 million acres have never been surveyed. In Interior's forests some 9 billion valuable board feet of wind-thrown timber are moldering away, hindering new growth...
...tonic as worthless as a cancer cure. Yet some 40 new patients a day keep coming to the Hoxsey Cancer Clinic in Dallas, hoping for the miracle cure-at $300 to $400 a treatment ("charity" patients pay little or nothing). Hoxsey friends are now trying to extend his domain beyond Texas. For weeks an attempt to establish a new Hoxsey clinic in Pennsylvania has been kicking up a major...
...glee, a pro's sureness and a champion's flair. On the ball diamond, he is in a hurry; he never walks when there is room to run, even if only from bench to field or field to shower room. In the broad domain of centerfield, Mays covers ground with limber-legged speed to pull down balls tagged with the promise of extra bases. He throws from center with a zip and an aim that have brought chagrin to the National League's brashest baserunners. "He's thrown men out at first like...
Leaving the details to subordinates, Chou set off on a triumphal tour of Asia with the air of a lord inspecting his domain. India bowed at the sight of the conquering hero who had humbled the West's best diplomats, hailed the generosity of his concessions on Laos and Cambodia...
...Sport of Kings & the People. Until time, the breaks, the handicapper's lead weights, a bigger heart or better blood dethrone him, the Big Grey reigns as popularly chosen monarch over a domain that has grown into the nation's biggest spectator sport...