Word: garden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Mildred B. Bliss died in 1969, leaving Harvard sole custodian of what had been her elegant Washington, D.C., home and 16-acre garden, she stressed in her will that the estate's trees were "not to be neglected or lightly destroyed...
That stricture has come back to haunt Harvard in the past few months as persistent opposition has forced the University to reconsider its plan to build an underground library beneath the formal garden...
Defeat also convinced Ford that he must be more assertive. The day after the North Carolina primary, he met with about 100 Texas Republicans amid the Rose Garden's blooming magnolias and promised that "the U.S. [military] is going to be No. 1, as it is." Later he defended his foreign policy before a group of conservative Senators at the White House. But Ford probably will not assail Reagan stridently. Explains an aide to the President: "He's got to pave the way for Reagan and his supporters to jump aboard his campaign at some point...
...riel superiority followed by a massive frontal attack with secondary flanking pushes. These tactics were successful in many battles-at Mareth, Tunisia, the Sangro River in Italy, and Caen, France-but they also led to some disasters. The most notable was the ill-starred 1944 operation "Market Garden," a Montgomery plan to march straight into Germany's Ruhr Valley by seizing five bridges that crossed the Rhine in Holland. The drive collapsed at the crucial crossing, Arnhem Bridge, with a devastating defeat of U.S. and British forces...
...orange line was quiet and people were glad to talk. A young black man had just come from heavyweight wrestling at the Garden, where he had been impressed by the performance of Bugsy McGraw. "The whole thing is phony," he told me, "But it's great entertainment. I go once a month, and never miss it on Saturday morning...