Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...project which turned the verdant Owens Valley to desert and stirred its farmers to rebellion. It constructed an artificial harbor, hatched the motion-picture business and raised oil derricks and searchlight beams. Its full-voiced Chamber of Commerce ballyhooed to climate. The city gulped in armies of aging lowans, land-hungry Oklahomans and dazzled tourists...
...State of New Mexico went to Federal Court last week to stop the U.S. Government from grabbing any more of its land. This time it was the U.S. Army which wanted full title to a chunk of New Mexico almost as big as New Jersey - the 7,200-square-mile White Sands Proving Ground area for guided missiles...
Nine years ago, James Street published the first of his series of novels of the Dabneys, Oh, Promised Land. The first book was 816 pages long, the next, Tap Roots, 593 pages, the third, By Valor and Arms, 538 pages. They told the story...
...Honoria Dabney and their descendants ; how they settled in Mississippi, fought Indians, traded in slaves, cleared land, built roads, made fortunes, formed the Free State of Lebanon (in opposition to the Confederacy) during the Civil...
...England in which this slow man got his seasoning was the land of what Henry James called "the classic abandoned farm of the rude forefather who had lost patience with his fate." In 1906, Frost had been farming for six years outside Deny, N.H., and had begun to teach school. He showed his verse to his wife, who liked it but never praised it. Frost kept this up until 1912, when he was 37; only then did he have enough money to buy passage to England for his family. As a poet he had no name whatever...