Word: lawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just can't understand what all these fellas are so worked up about," said an old man in overalls. He was listening to Harold Stassen on the green courthouse lawn at Dallas, Ore. "This man and Governor Dewey come all the way out here and wear themselves out. We ain't got that much voice in the convention-we only got six electoral votes...
They finally found it-a two-story house of rust-colored brick on the border between white and Negro districts in midSt. Louis. The place was 50 years old, but it had a lawn and stood on a quiet, elm-shaded street. They made a down payment, signed a mortgage and moved in one day in October 1945. That evening a process server notified them that they had been sued by a white neighbor. The neighbor wanted to throw them...
...students in the white, high-ceilinged chapel. With the bright Iowa sunlight streaming through the windows, Wallace talked earnestly and simply. Said he: "The guiding principles of the Quaker faith are still the most practical guide to ordinary living." Afterward, he sat under a tree on the lawn, chatted with undergraduates...
...past half century, three different city planners and countless commissions and boards have produced plans to beautify Ottawa, if not make it bigger. The net result: a few extra patches of public lawn, a few monuments, and Confederation Square, which has so complicated downtown traffic that Ottawans themselves call it Confusion Square. Ottawa, dominated by the anachronistic Gothic buildings of Parliament, has remained frowzy, a city where trains run through the center of town and chuff smoke into the foyer of the best hotel...
Henry Agard Wallace, whose much-publicized project for planting corn on the tiny lawn of his Park Avenue headquarters struck a lot of people as right off the cob, changed his mind. He settled for gladioli, and set foot to spade for photographers...