Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Long ago and far away there was a land where it was always Christmas. It had not always been that way. Once there was only one day a year when people exchanged presents as we do. There was only one Santa Claus then, and it was all he could do to prepare presents for everyone and then distribute them all in one frantic night of frenzied, orgiastic gift-giving. It inevitably took a team of psychiatrists several months to rebuild the monomaniacal old man's psyche, and Santa inevitably spent the rest of the year following his recovery doing...
...concerned about the difficulty of attracting talented young executives to Columbus. So he announced that the Cummins Engine Foundation would foot architectural fees for any public structure designed by a distinguished architect. Explained Miller, now 68: "You can't pioneer any more by hacking out new land. But you can through architecture...
...have touched off fresh waves of leasing and prospecting activity. Altogether, major oil companies and independents have leased more than 1.8 million acres. Some landowners got as much as $350 an acre and a one-third share in future production. The state of Louisiana, controlling 5 million acres, leased land on the bottom of Lake Pontchartrain for $324 an acre and a choice site elsewhere at $1,500 an acre in competitive bidding. So far, the Tuscaloosa Sand has yielded 14 producing or potentially producing wells...
...grab. If they can't hit me, they can't hurt me." Lawrence dashed into the Chicago backfield earlier this season to sack Quarterback Bob Avellini, but such heroics are generally off-limits to him. "I never go into the interior line-that's no-no land. Venture into there at my size and I'm taking a chance with my life. I also stay out of the way of those vicious pulling guards. When one of them makes contact, I go down low like a bulldog after a larger...
...There are approximately 754 million acres of forest land in the U.S. today, 75% as much as when the first colonists arrived. From new growth alone, the forests can yield enough firewood-apart from other products-to provide all the heat for 75 million homes...