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Word: ranching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have become more accessible and irresistible, the chances to work them off in healthy exercise have diminished. "In many of our great cities," he writes, "safe opportunities for strenuous play now scarcely exist . . . As suburbia expands . . . the car pool and the school bus reduce the energy expenditure, and the ranch house no longer provides calorie-expending stairs to climb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Perambulator to Grave | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

...added the name Patricia. Before the baby was a year old, Kate Ryan persuaded Will to give up mining (her first husband, an engineer, had been killed in a mining accident), and the family moved West, settled on an eleven-acre truck farm (he called it a "ranch") near Artesia, 20 miles southeast of Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: The Silent Partner | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

...nearby desert. Few realized that the newcomer would turn their isolated, sheep-and-sugar-beet town into a booming center of U.S. rocketry. Today the rocket plant's employees number more than 3,000, flood Brigham City's roads with traffic and its schools with children. Ranch-style homes for engineers, chemists, physicists and mathematicians are spreading into the beet fields. This is only a beginning. The Air Force announced that it will soon build at Brigham City a full-scale plant to mass-produce Thiokol's mighty first-stage booster for the Minuteman. Estimated cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Home of Minuteman | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

Park Forest, a junior-executive suburb 30 miles south of Chicago's Loop, is as meticulously planned as any postwar community in the nation. Its 31,000 residents live mainly in ranch houses, shop in glossy supermarkets, generally vote Republican, send their children to ultramodern schools. Late last month, into Park Forest moved a new family-Charles Z. (for Zachary) Wilson, 30, an assistant professor of economics at De Paul University, his wife and their three pre-school children. Some of the neighbors dropped in to welcome them, offer assistance, invite Mrs. Wilson to neighborhood coffee klatsches. Ethel Klutznick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Planned Brotherhood | 1/18/1960 | See Source »

...bear would be a boy. In a camp for Palestinian refugees outside the Jordanian city of Jericho, Mrs. Shamma Mohamed Sammour complacently accepted congratulations on the birth of her ninth child-a girl whom the Sammours decided to name Sariah, which in Arabic means rich. On his Brazilian ranch, lean, energetic Berlino de Andrade, 67, confided to friends that he had decided to have no more children, but was unworried by the problem of supporting the 36 he had already sired. Said Berlino: "If I can't do anything better for them, I can always raise them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POPULATION: The Numbers Game | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

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