Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cycle began with the increase in leisure time. Many of the vacationers, hunters and skiers who motored up new highways to Windham County decided to buy second homes. They, in turn, attracted developers, who quickly snapped up big parcels of land. So far, subdividers have built 4,216 vacation houses; by 1974 they plan to construct another 5,000. Naturally, land prices and property taxes have soared. In 1967, the owner of a 55-acre wood lot in Guilford paid $24 in annual taxes; today he pays $585. As a result, some residents can no longer afford to live...
...Broadway, September is always the month that most nearly resembles Dr. Johnson's definition of a second marriage-"the triumph of hope over experience...
...Osborne has delved into spy lore of the early 20th century for his A Patriot for Me; his hero, played by Maximilian Schell, is a homosexual secret-service officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army who is blackmailed into spying for the Russians. The "drag ball" scene that opens the second act has been a titillating conversation piece ever since the play premiered in London in 1965. Murderous Angels probes the motives and characters of Patrice Lumumba and Dag Hammarskjold as seen by Conor Cruise O'Brien, who was himself in the Congo as head of U.N. operations in Katanga...
...product of chemistry.) The opponents of legalization argue that even if marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol, one chemical escape valve is enough for any society. As Beverly Hills Judge Leonard Wolf puts it: "It would not be a particularly healthy situation to unleash upon the public a second intoxicant that would rival alcohol. Alcohol is tremendously dangerous to society, but it has become part of our culture. Is that any reason to invite in a second, equally dangerous substance...
...comedy and, for action, to the less lethal lawyers, teachers and, especially, doctors. Sex is out, but procreation is certainly in. The eight new situation comedies will introduce at least eleven kids among them, and some of the holdover shows are hugely pregnant. Samantha in Bewitched will bear her second child in November; Agents 86 and 99 in Get Smart are expecting twins...