Word: gardens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girls up on Garden St. aren't safe from the Reds either, you know," said Councillor John D. Lynch, who introduced the bill. He added that the current neglect of Radcliffe was brought to his attention late last Saturday night when he noticed Walker St. "packed solid with cars, and a girl with a bulldog in every...
...rose garden of the White House, Gronchi presented to Eisenhower a bronze reproduction of The Discus Thrower and a grey granite pillar surmounted by a white marble capital. In thanks, Eisenhower said: "As you know, we have millions of citizens of Italian derivation...
More Arab than the Arabs, Glubb Pasha loved to recite Arab classics, finger Moslem prayer beads (though himself an Anglican), and walk hand in hand in Eastern fashion with Abdullah in the King's garden. During interminable parleys with desert sheiks, he would pick imaginary lice from his burnoose to make his guests feel at home. Called Abu Huneik (Father of the Little Jaw) because of a bullet wound incurred on the Western front in World War I, he molded his loyal tribesmen into a hard-disciplined force of 20,000 men that helped to save Iraq from...
Lurking among the flowers and vegetables in many a South African garden patch is an innocent-looking weed called dagga. Dried and smoked like marijuana, a close relative, it induces a dreamy recklessness that can spur men to acts of terrible savagery. Nearly one-fourth of the rapes, murders and maulings that occur in the slums of South Africa's great cities are blamed on dagga...
...boyhood image of his looming (200 Ibs., 6 ft. 1 in.) father, Charlie Cloar. Arrival of the Germans in Crittenden County, if they won the war they would be over here shows spiked-helmeted soldiers of the Kaiser's army wandering in greatcoats through a rolling Arkansas landscape. Garden of Love, all the little girls had brown eyes is Cloar's homage to all the small girls that he silently admired in their summer dresses...