Word: hayfields
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many of the city's Victorian buildings have been transformed from shabby relics into stylist shops, restaurants and dwellings. But Burlington's boom was threatened in 1976 when a major shopping-center developer the Pyramid Companies, decided to build an 82-store complex on an 80-acre hayfield in the town of Williston (pop. 4,000) only five miles away...
...shady traffic island in the middle of Cannes. Typical is Axel Koenigs, a young West German bank employee who drove to the Côte d'Azur with two friends. After trying 40 campgrounds without luck (and meantime sleeping in his Volkswagen), he invaded a freshly cut hayfield. Says he: "Since there is no possibility to find solitude, we intend to make the best...
...Dawn: a hayfield spreads to a stand of poplars; early sun warms the rough wall of a stone granary; in the middle distance, two small groups...
...believe that we can pay our taxes, hire labor, buy machinery, fencing supplies, repairs or anything else for the same prices we paid 20 years ago? How do we stay in business? We borrow a little more, we have our eleven-year-old son work full time in the hayfield, we work from daylight till dark-and now, during calving, part of the night, too. Boycott meat or import it-either way, when American beef producers are bankrupt, the inferior imported beef will have the housewife crying louder than...
...golf balls, though, were for real. The Trevino house stood in a hayfield next to the seventh fairway of the Glen Lakes Country Club. In between was a fence, and little Lee was soon turning a tidy profit on that happy coincidence ?collecting balls that sailed over the fence and selling them back to club members. Expanding his business, he welded two rake handles together, fashioned a chicken-wire scoop on one end, and went fishing for more strays in the water hazards. "I cleared maybe $10 a day," he recalls. When he was six, he found a discarded...