Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vintner John's armigeral sons emigrated to the American colonies aboard the good ship Safety in 1635. Jimmy's 11th generation ancestor Thomas became a well-to-do Virginia planter, while his elder brother John acquired an even richer swath of Old Dominion farm land. It was John's son, Robert ("King") Carter, who became the first American millionaire. According to Harold Brooks-Baker, Debrett's managing director, hustling King Carter owned 300,000 acres, more than 1,000 slaves and perhaps the largest collection of books in the colonies -at a time, notes Brooks-Baker...
...building will sit next to anothe parcel of land on the MBTA yard site, which the Commonwealth has opened up for bidding by private development firms. A committee chaired by State Rep. Thomas H.D. Mahoney is currently considering three proposals for the land, and will probably reach a decision this fall...
...airports to keep the participants out of one another's struts, the convention was not only the "world's largest aviation event" but also the world's biggest traffic jam. Chicago's O'Hare, the world's busiest airport, averages some 2,000 landings and takeoffs a day; there were more than 4,800 daily at Oshkosh. Since many of the planes were not even equipped with radios, the controllers were forced to rely on red smoke signals. Even those flyers with radios were not much better off: a pilot once asked in what...
Turner's reputation as the "Mouth of the South"-whether on land, at sea or hi Bowie Kuhn's hair-has tended to obscure his extraordinary sailing skill. He began to sail when, as a boy, he was too small and uncoordinated to excel at any other sport. "I didn't have a lot of natural athletic ability," says the immodest man modestly, "but this was a game that took nerves and brains and heart. And I had a lot of heart. I could hang in there." Hang in he did, and over the years, Turner emerged...
...Coover's attempt to illuminate extremes by making them more extreme. The Rosenbergs' trial and execution were a passionate chapter in an overheated era. Even now, 24 years after their deaths, questions about the couple's guilt or innocence quickly grow heated. Manias stalked the land in the "50s; public and private life had the quality of a Manichaean morality play. Coover knows this, presents all the evidence, and then denies his book the ability to touch hearts or minds instead of nerves. What might have been a long, compassionate look becomes a protracted sneer. Paul Gray