Word: graze
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along March Point on Washington's Fidalgo Island, where three generations of the March family let their sheep out to graze on bucolic farm land, there are now Shell and Texaco refineries and there will soon be a $15 million Lone Star Cement plant. Near by, at sleepy Port Townsend, Crown Zellerbach has built a pulp mill...
After cruising for another 75 minutes to reduce their fuel load, White decided to graze the ground briefly to ascertain whether the forward gear was properly locked in place. As soon as he touched down, six of the eight tires on the main landing gear blew out. The same computer failure that had affected the forward gear had locked the brakes on the main wheels, freezing them. White had no choice but to go through with the landing. "It was an experience we wouldn't have missed for worlds," said White, "and one we wouldn't like...
...Trumbull Professorship, which has been vacant since Key's death in 1963, was created to honor an 18th century jurist who was chief justice and then governor of Connecticut. It is an nonorary position. "I can't even graze my cows in the yard," McCloskey said...
...Alcoa Hour, Kraft Theater and Studio One have gone, Schaefer's Hallmark Hall of Fame is virtually the only greenery left. The other directors spawned in the golden days of live and tape television-Arthur Penn, Sidney Lumet, John Frankenheimer, et al.-have all gone to graze in the lusher pastures of Broadway or Hollywood. Only Schaefer still does business at the same old stand. For him 60 feet of studio space still offer acres of opportunity and fulfillment, as he proved with last week's Inherit the Wind...
...plan, which pays the farmer 62½ for every bushel of corn he does not grow but reasonably might have. Thus, without so much as sinking a spade in his earth, the farmer made a clear profit of more than $8,000. "And, besides," he noted accurately, "I can graze that rented land after October...