Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overhanging oaks, their fathers labor with hand mowers and rakes. On one lawn up the street, a rummage sale is in progress. Station wagons, laden with children, groceries, dogs and camping equipment, and trailing boats, slide out of driveways, heading north for a week or two at the lake...
...agreeable qualities are evident there: courtesy and fairness, honesty, a capacity for innovation, hard work, intellectual adventure and responsibility. The land is large (84,068 sq. mi.), the population small (just under 4,000,000). Nature is close (20 minutes from a downtown Minneapolis office building to a country lake) and generally well protected...
...large rambling house, Paulson likes to take his children walking to see woodchucks, mallards, chipmunks and an occasional fox. They feed pheasant on their lawn. The Paulsons attend church ten minutes away in downtown Minneapolis, and in the summers vacation on the thickly wooded shores of sparkling, uncrowded Gull Lake, 2½ hours north of the Twin Cities. "I feel fortunate," says Paulson, "that we can still taste the things that 50 years ago people took for granted...
...Canadian Henley held July 28 on St. Catherine's Lake in Ontario, the Cliffies covered the 1000 meter course in near record time, leading the competition to an easy victory...
...serious tennis player grows up in the shadows of this elitism. Most of the biggest tournaments are held in the richest spots of the country--Marion, Piping Rock, Orange, Lake Forest. Week to week the players are passed from one plush club to the next, mannikins for the wealthy onlookers...