Word: lawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes." explains one of his ministers. "He asks you a few questions-right to the point-and that's that"). Though he is a tireless administrator, he enjoys his time off: a dash into the country in a Cadillac or Mercedes or Rolls, an energetic game of boules (lawn bowling) with a few French servants and friends, a simple meal (French cuisine) followed by an occasional American cigarette (he does not inhale...
...thwarted debs, no garden party could make up their loss. Only a handful of the carefully sifted thousands who munch dainty sandwiches on the Buckingham Palace lawn get even a good view of the royalty present. The majority can only tell their children that they once walked on the same grass as the Queen and saw quite clearly the outside of the tent in which she took...
...crowd scrambled back onto the front lawn and porch of a private home, screaming protests that the soldiers had no right to bother them there. The paratroopers came on, moved up the porch steps, began pushing people off. A Missouri Pacific switchman named C. E. Blake, for days one of the most vocal of the agitators around Central High ("I advocate violence"), grabbed for a rifle, pulled a paratrooper to the ground with him. Another trooper reversed his rifle, smashed its butt against Blake's head. Blake, blood streaming from a shallow scalp wound, scuttled away, shouting to newsmen...
Friendliness by Day. Not everyone in Levittown belongs to the anti-Myers Social Club. More than 1,000 residents signed a "Declaration of Conscience" deploring "acts of violence and intimidation." Some came by to mow Myers' lawn, leave gifts or say hello. But even a few of these have paid the price of friendliness. Next-door neighbor Lewis Wechsler has been openly friendly since Myers moved in; since then a cross has been burned during the night on Wechsler's lawn and a painted KKK blobbed across one wall of his home. A woman who lives half...
...Marshal Beal Kidd, an old friend of Faubus, passed through the National Guard lines and handed Faubus the summons on the executive lawn. The summons genuinely worried Faubus: the man who hated to be looked down upon began to fret about the trouble his new prominence might bring...