Word: garden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Weddings always bring problems. For the marriage of Pakistan President Yahya Khan's son in Karachi last week there was the need to flush the cobras out of the garden. The task required the blandishments of eight snake charmers. Three cobras were captured-one of them eleven feet long...
...racism for building Israeli housing on what had been Arab land. If the plight of Soviet Jews improved, Israeli Ambassador Yosef Tek-oah countered, "the voice of the Soviet Union would be heard with greater respect." At that Malik warned, "Don't stick your long nose into our garden. History shows that those who do, lose their noses...
...Private Cold War As the black Mercedes-Benz limousine rolled through the Vatican's Arch of Bells early last week, Pope Paul VI himself stood waiting in the garden. When the car door opened, the Pope reached in to help his exhausted guest out of the back seat, then embraced him warmly. Paul led the aged man to an apartment in St. John's Tower and -in the ultimate gesture of papal humility-gave the pectoral cross and bishop's ring he was wearing to the visitor...
...spend a good deal of their time contriving projects to stimulate their classes. Let the children choose, they say but only if they choose from a set of "officially-(approved) creative" activities: for instance, writing a fake Peace Corps journal instead of having geography class; or making an avant-garden environment form Daddy's old cigars and cigar boxes, instead of painting a picture of the most exciting day of the summer vacation. Not that Herndon didn't put in his time dreaming up far-out schemes to hold his student's attention. He had his class pretend...
Packed into the basement of the International Student Center on 33 Garden Street (where, due to the closeness of the quarters, one's dominant impression is of the backs of other people's heads), "Changes" harkens to the days when all the kids in the neighborhood would put on a talent show in the nextdoor garage, charging indulgent parents 25 cents admission to view the totally expectable proceedings. (No wonder that, now grown, the same kids have no use for the notion of a nationally subsidized theater...