Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boxers, watering it with a flaccid garden hose, but more on that later) --suburbs were in fact designed around lawns. Jenkins describes the flight to suburbia and the ascendancy of the single-family home with front yard as "the most characteristic single feature of European settlement in North America...
...institution despite its many Oxbridge influences, Harvard is not only part of the lawn-lovin' American Dream, it helps shape it. Emerson's American Scholar address (given in the Yard, perhaps?) and his otheR writings helped define the Dream in its inception. Today, Bercovitch's course The Myth of America analyzes where the Dream went thereafter. The grass is in there somewhere (see Walt Whitman's book of poems,"Leaves of Grass...
Gephardt described the USCCR as "promoting tolerance and providing America with a better understanding of issues of race and civil rights...
...quite a boy either. All the tell-tale signs of puberty, such as facial hair and acne, are strangely absent. His skin is as baby-smooth in "The Blue Lotus" (set in 1930s Shanghai) as it is in his final adventure, "Tintin and The Picaros" (set in 1970s Latin America). Forty years without a single zit or wrinkle! That's as amazing an ability as Superman's X-ray vision...
...over Kosovo on Capitol Hill. Republicans are in such a hurry to embarrass their draft-dodging President next week by approving $13 billion in military spending when Clinton asked for only $6 billion, they're ready to settle up another tab: $2.4 billion, mostly aid to Central America for the victims of Hurricane Mitch...