Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...repeated. The object of the new American land rush is vacation and retirement property in nearly every part of the country. Developing planned recreational communities has become a billion-dollar business, and property that is often much less desirable than the Oklahoma Territory is being peddled as shamelessly as snake...
...Snake Acres. Many buyers surrender the standard 5% to 10% down payment for their lots through the mail without even seeing what they buy. Others overlook restrictive covenants, tax liens and hair-raising warnings in the property reports that large developers must file with the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Horizon Corp., the largest subdivider in New Mexico, is supplying future residents of its 150,000-acre Rio communities with neither water nor sewage systems. Southwest Land Corp. is developing Santa California City, N. Mex., without selling new owners the mineral rights to their land; other people, who bought...
...Like teams, many basketball stars have nicknames. See if you can identify these colleges' All-Americans from their nicknames and then give the nicknames or mascots of the teams. Kentucky State's "The Machine," St. John's "Chairman of the Board," and Stephen F. Austin's "The Snake...
Feydeau's beds and bedlam are most happily with us again in the 1896 work Le Dindon (The Turkey), here entitled There's One in Every Marriage. Following a Feydeau plot is like trying to trail a snake through a bayou. It exists by twists and turns, sudden panics and slithery asides...
...amenities that most Americans take for granted are hard to come by. Pipelines for natural gas, used to heat homes in Barrow, must run above ground, because the earth is permanently frozen from a few inches below the surface to a depth of 1,300 ft. Gas lines snake through the settlement resting on half-sections of 55-gal. oil drums; at intersections, the pipe is framed in wood and runs overhead on gateways that look like crude Japanese torii. The impenetrable ground also makes sanitation a problem. Although the U.S. Public Health Service has promised to help with sewers...