Word: tenants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...walking to the court house with a Negro tenant farmer, to register him to vote. A police officer stops you and says, 'Look sonny, why are you messing around down here where you don't belong, why don't you go back North where you came from?' What do you reply...
...simple" (complete ownership). In Troilus and Cressida, even Greeks and Trojans talk in terms of "fee-form" (tenure without limit). "Lease" is used to express transience: life is a "lease of nature" (Macbeth); "summer's lease hath all too short a date" (Sonnet 18). As for "tenant," Hamlet's gravediggers argue that the most durable building is a gallows because it "outlives a thousand tenants...
...Tenants in a cooperative merely own stock (based on the size of their apartments) in a parent corporation, which pays for the mortgage, the taxes and upkeep of the property. In a condominium, on the other hand, the tenant has title to his apartment, just as if it were a house. He arranges his own mortgage, thus may have to put down only, say, $10,000 of his own money on a $50,000 apartment. Co-op buyers customarily have to pay all cash, since the building is already mortgaged, though some coops permit buyers to make a down payment...
Though it is the first such setup in the U.S., electronic marketing is not all that the housewives' network has to offer. Channel 6 provides 24-hour Big Sisterly surveillance of the lobby which allows a tenant to inspect her own callers before admitting them or to eavesdrop on a neighbor's callers. Switching to Channel 5, a mother can check on the kids in the swimming pool. A fourth camera continuously displays cards printed with news items, classified ads and unclassified gossip...
Died. Robert Lee Thornton, 83, mayor of Dallas from 1953 to 1961 and the city's No. 1 booster for four decades; after a long illness; in Dallas. The son of a tenant cotton farmer who built a tiny mortgage business into the $450 million Mercantile National Bank (one of Dallas' Big Three), Thornton was head of a host of civic organizations that helped bring in the Dallas Symphony, the 1935 Texas Centennial, and an annual state fair the likes of which even Texans had never seen...