Word: home
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great deal of money was required to buy the materials, hire a designer and planters, and have either gardeners or animals shave it down to its optimum length. When the upper echelons of colonial society returned from their European travels with news of the latest in fashion, food, and home decor, they brought the lawn with them--it came from Old to New England with all its attendant symbolism...
...literally couldn't exist without the lawn (and the fat balding man standing around in his 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...
Captain Hal Carey blasted two home runs at clutch moments for the Crimson and finished with four...
...theme was that every American should have a decent home and a suitable living environment," he said...
Colton said this goal has been achieved, pointing to the fact that the home ownership rate is currently 66.8 percent, up from 55 percent in 1950. He also said that 60 percent of existing houses have been built since 1949 and that only 5 percent of homes were deemed crowded in 1990, compared to 16 percent...