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Word: offing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
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Though they made the same wages as the transient young people who worked at the cannery and camped on the beach nearby, Barbara and Lance often managed to put together magnificent dinner-feasts-fresh shrimp, Dungeness and King Crab, hamburgers, Lance's spiced back-of-the-stove beans, and fresh...

Author: By William S. Beckett, | Title: Relaxing, Living, Taking Time To Do Things | 12/17/1970 | See Source »

In the winter, Barbara and Lance don't have so many visitors; when there's snow, most cars can't make it over the road to their point of land. Those people who do make it in for a long visit have to learn a few things. "When people come...

Author: By William S. Beckett, | Title: Relaxing, Living, Taking Time To Do Things | 12/17/1970 | See Source »

Ask Lance what he and Barbara will be doing a year from now, and you won't get much of an answer. The future doesn't impose on them from too great a distance. "I'm trying to get my novel published. We'll stay here in Homer through this...

Author: By William S. Beckett, | Title: Relaxing, Living, Taking Time To Do Things | 12/17/1970 | See Source »

Over 300 Cambridge tenants and landlords turned out at Rindge Auditorium last night to advise Philip M. Cronin, Interim Rent Control administrator, on the question of an across-the-board rent increase.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rent Increase Hearing Brings No Decision | 12/17/1970 | See Source »

The chairman of the Cambridge Board of Assessors presented figures favoring an across-the-board rent increase of five per cent to account for the 20 per cent 1970 property tax increase.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rent Increase Hearing Brings No Decision | 12/17/1970 | See Source »

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