Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Proposition's advocates never allude to race, presenting the measure as a "free property issue." The strategy is intelligent, for the sprawling tract-developments of the state's suburbias have made almost every Californian a homeowner. The emphasis on "freedom" has even confused many Negros...
Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci, criticizing the project, told the Council that "I can't see why we must dislocate that whole area when we have other areas we can offer to NASA." He referred to a tract of land near the Arthur D. Little Company on Route...
Otherwise, Lovely War might have been merely an arid anti-war tract. At first, the flip, saucy cast seems bent only on deriding the crippled bodies, the eroding corpses, the eyes of anguish that stare from still shots on the drop screen with enormous dramatic pathos. But by a subtle transference, the men on the stage become the suffering men on the screen, and their bitter jests testify to the resilience of man, a creature who laughs in order to endure the unendurable...
...Clause. Before 4,000 delegates to the Texas Republican Convention in Austin, Miller waved a 1938 deed for 20 parcels of land outside Austin bought by Lady Bird and Lyndon Johnson with no restrictions of any sort. The Johnsons still own much of the land -now a valuable tract on Lake Austin surrounded by prosperous-looking homes. But in 1945, said Miller, the Johnsons sold seven lots of that property, and at that time a new clause was inserted in the deed-prohibiting "any person or persons of African descent" from occupying the property except as domestic servants...
More Desirable. Everything went smoothly at first. Sitting in his rocker, his feet on a footstool, Lyndon Johnson was at his best. He deftly mentioned that he had looked at a recent speech by Burns, prominently displayed a copy of Keyserling's latest economic tract on monetary policy, and at one point replied to an expression of optimism by Saulnier by saying: "Mr. Saulnier, you're making this nomination seem more desirable all the time." Basking in this euphoria, the visitors generally agreed that the economy's short-term prospects did indeed look good...