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Word: ranched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Model Railroad. Today country-music stars may sing about riding the freights or drinking a brew, but many go home to antebellum mansions or $500,000 ranch houses, buy Cadillacs and keep houseboats around for the weekends. A trend now is toward private jets, but many country stars, Haggard included, prefer to own their own buses-huge $100,000 cruisers decked out with color TVs, recording equipment, separate quarters for star and band, sometimes even separate buses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lord, They've Done It All | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

...story, set in California more than a century ago, is elegant and simple rather than wild and woolly: Eileen Mulkerin, an Irish widow, and her two sons, Sean, the roguish sea captain, and Michael, a nicely implacable monk, are fighting to keep their ranch at Malibu from assorted ruffians (mercifully free from squints, twitches or actual deformity). The villains do not stand a chance. They have to face the psychological weaponry of the Mulkerins' Indian friends (using ancient magical powers to scare the wits out of them). Those villains who survive face the actual hardware of other friends, "lean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wide-Open Pages | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...still quite vigorous at 63. He is a Republican who tends toward the liberal wing and speaks with an aristocratic New England accent. A needle-point wall-hanging of a bald eagle holding the stars and stripes decorates one wall of the small study in his modest, modern ranch house in suburban Lincoln...

Author: By Peter Shapiro, | Title: Who It Is | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

Jaworski's call to action in Washington came at a time when his ambitions were behind him and largely fulfilled. He was perfectly content to continue his law practice and spend his spare time on his more than 800-acre ranch, where he enjoys clearing the land with chain saws and raising quarter horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Texan Who Goes His Own Way | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

...loans to its Saudi employees, while paying them well (average yearly wage: $6,270) and training them carefully. Today 15% of the company's some 260 managers are Saudis. They mingle easily in the company's headquarters town of Dhahran, where Aramco has created a neighborhood of ranch-style houses and tree-lined streets that look a bit like a suburb of Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Shadow over Aramco | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

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