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Word: tric (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...area is a shambles. Gas and elec tric pipes litter the landscape. Giant earth movers snarl uphill and down. A tornado knocked the roof off the country-clubhouse even before it was finished, and as for the golf course it is still nothing but rough. Worst of all, the lake bed is dry. Yet customers are descending in droves to buy up lots in a new real estate development called the Lakes of the Four Seasons, a 20-minute drive from Gary, Ind. In less than two months, they have bought 550 of the 2,500 lots. Though prices start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Land: The Lakemaker | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

...Milestones section, the Lampoon has noted the death of one "Theophilius Crim, noted Long Island eccen- tric, who enjoyed having rubbish strewn artistically around his 5000 acre South Hampton estate, who is survived by wife Iss. and son Whippet, and whose chief caretaker, when asked why work was stopped after the death announcement, replied, "We've decided to leave the job of disseminating trash to the CRIMSON" of gout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Lampoon' Takes 'Time' to Parody; Humor Substituted for News Weekly | 4/27/1965 | See Source »

...Defferre would not go back on recognition, however, "because it is done." ∙FRENCH FOREIGN AID. Defferre wants it largely limited to France's former colonies, not scattered in ambitious prestige projects elsewhere. The money saved, he says, should be poured into badly needed housing, schools and elec tric power at home. ∙MANNER. Defferre would try to in stitute a genuine "dialogue" in place of the "monologue" that is De Gaulle's method of conducting foreign policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Preview of a Candidate | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

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