Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convenience of location, and general comfort." It was more popularly famous for its annual class day spreads on the front lawn, and for its Japanese prince who supposedly spent thousands of dollars for teak living room panelling. The hall's lawn was also reserved for the elite, enclosing a grass tennis court on which many stars of the time played...
...ceremonial dagger and gives it to you, that's something." Next day the Eisenhower family went to the Abilene cemetery to look at the graves of the President's parents. David Jacob and Ida Stover Eisenhower. The plain granite headstone marked "Eisenhower" was surrounded by dry, brown grass, and a worried frown crossed Ike's face. "Can't we do something about this old buffalo grass?" he asked...
Hearst's pro-Eisenhower, pro-McCarthy NEW YORK JOURNAL-AMERICAN: There are three chief causes for the comparatively good showing of the Republicans: 1) The honest-to-goodness grass roots campaign by Vice President Dick Nixon. 2) The dramatic last-minute appeal by Senator Joseph McCarthy to Republicans to forget their differences. 3) The eleventh-hour realization by Republican campaigners that they were in a fight and not punting in the moonlight...
...mentally ill. Viewers are likely to remember for a long time the shots of patients on the lawns and benches of the hospital grounds. No faces were shown, but none needed to be, for there was overwhelming pathos in the pictures of patients' hands either plucking nervously at grass or gripped together in numb despair...
...doing odd jobs, complains James Bernard Kelley, a Long Island businessman, in the Catholic weekly America. "Houses are painted, roofs are replaced ... automobiles dismantled and polished." Three years ago Kelley got to thinking about his boyhood Sundays, when "I can never recall a nail driven or a blade of grass shorn." Kelley and his family have since done their chores on Saturdays. The result is that "our lawn was never in such good condition . . . More than that, the keeper of the lawn has never been in such good condition either...