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Word: lot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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What's wrong with mobile homes? We own one and find it quite comfortable. We pay $96.07 a month for "mortgage" and $45 for lot rent. We pay no taxes, no water or sewage. Our insurance is minimal, and the only "taxes" we pay are $50 a year for a license...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 3, 1977 | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

...remarkable sense of history, and he had good-sense guts. Ike had perhaps the most refined sense of honor of any modern President. He trusted the system, he trusted the American people, and they in turn returned that trust. John Kennedy had style, some substance and a lot of combativeness. Nixon knew power and the world, and for a spell that appeared to be enough. Jerry Ford vetoed bills and kept his cool, and there emerged from even his limited presidency the sense of a man wielding power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Searching for that Special Formula for Leadership | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

...stars Winters as a bumbling night watchman who swaps heads with a talking pumpkin. The tricks and treats are vintage Disney, and Winters loved it all-especially his costume. "I was secure with my head," he says. "I knew I was a pumpkin mentally. There's a lot of seeds up there-some gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 3, 1977 | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

Living well is the best revenge. But when you are the most famous widow in the world, it takes a lot of money. Not having fared particularly well by the estate of her first husband, Jacqueline Kennedy negotiated a $3 million reverse dowry when she married Aristotle Onassis in 1968. In exchange, Jackie, then 39, relinquished all future claims to the fabulous estate of the husband 23 years older than she. A troublesome stepdaughter changed all that. Christina Onassis had opposed the marriage in the first place, friends say, and called Jackie "an opportunist." By the time her father died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 3, 1977 | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

There you have it. You know I don't ask for much, so I wish that once again, you'd heed my request. I remember that you helped me out the last time I wrote, because how else could I have passed Fine Arts 13. Thanks a lot. See you around the campus, sport. Later. Love, Mike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head | 10/1/1977 | See Source »

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