Word: following
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be granted tax concessions if he agreed to keep his land undeveloped, could hold back industry from the shoreline and crowning highlands, at the same time keep the countryside in private hands. Intelligent zoning could induce subdividers to arrange houses in clusters rather than wasteful grids and to follow the natural contour of the land instead of flattening it with the bulldozer...
...caused her to drop to her hands and knees and scrub the bathroom floor during a visit to SAC headquarters. The fans also got a sizable helping of bloopers. "For more than 2,000 years," Hedda once intoned reverently, "Jews and Christians all over the world have tried to follow in the footsteps of our Saviour...
...American blonde. "Now it's getting jetty." Chances are it will get even more so. "Where else could you find this climate in a country that's politically safe?" asks Count Jean de la Bruyère, 37, who made his fortune in Canadian real estate. "I follow the sun, and this is the place. And the informality! Here you may wear anything, but always no socks. That's very important. Jamais les socks...
...hokum with rattling of Venetian blinds, fake phone calls, unscrewing of fuses, disguises of voice. But Lee Remick is a sightless Penelope with uncanny perception who carefully unravels in Act II everything that the crooks have carelessly knitted in Act I; it takes a pretty dedicated mystery fan to follow every purl three, drop one, of this crazy pattern. In Act III the mayhem picks up, and a refrigerator becomes the most electrifying actor in the house...
...Sydney district of Parramatta). Arthur is seen by his neighbors at the end of Terminus Road as a "dill," a "no-hoper," a "loopy," a "nut," a "mophret" (hermaphrodite), and "a dirty old man." The reader sympathizes with these brisk Aussie judgments; Arthur is indeed hard to follow as he mumbles about the place goggling at the dreary scenery or polishing that glass marble with the two spirals inside...