Word: lawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bush of French West Africa, Bushman was captured in babyhood. He got to Lincoln Park in 1930, weighing 38 Ibs. Almost every morning for 4½ years, Keeper Eddie Robinson hitched Bushman to a 75-ft. rope and took him out for a romp on the monkey-house lawn. Man and beast wrestled, ran races, played football. Bushman learned how to heave a neat underhand pass, run with the ball, dodge tacklers. He was always gentle and obedient...
...Washington, park officials announced that they had succeeded in ridding the White House lawn of wild onions...
...Grass, Alas! In Salt Lake City, Park Commissioner Fred Tedesco reported that some highly specialized crooks had been at work in Fairmont Park: 225 square feet of lawn had disappeared...
...over the face of the earth to bring back dead bodies to this country [TIME, April 14] seems to me not only wantonly wasteful but unchristian as well. Do the sweethearts, wives and mothers of these dead have to have their loved ones' bodies in Forest Lawn or Mineola cemetery in order to preserve their memory? Better to spend the money and effort in extending help to the still living in the war-ravished countries, as a living memorial to those men, and thus make future wars such as they died in less probable...
...Paris last week, with the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association's cable still not answered, Champion Pauline Betz was outlawed from amateur tennis. "I'm not going to sit in a corner and cry about this," she said. But an hour later, at a sidewalk café on the Champs Elyseés, her little glass of jus de fruits was still untouched in front of her and Pauline seemed undecided what...