Word: lawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Material Witness. In Hialeah, Fla., a lawn party for female employees of the J. R. Handbags of Florida, Inc., makers of alligator purses, broke up in screams when a 35-lb. alligator lumbered out of a nearby thicket...
Trimmed. In Oklahoma City, T. E. Watts appeared at the U.S. Treasury office with a box of shredded money he wanted to replace, explained that his wallet fell out of his pocket while he was cutting the lawn and the lawnmower chopped it to pieces...
...mean business.' We started to save for the down payment on the budget plan and finally got a G.I. mortgage." The Derricks now have a brick, three-bedroom ranch house with two TV sets, an air conditioner, piano, dog, two birds, a 1953 Chrysler, and a Zoysia grass lawn that is the envy of their neighbors. "You know, a lot of Negroes never think too much about their homes and their lawns in the city," says Mrs. Derrick. "But when they come out here, they really put all of themselves into their homes. It lifts them...
...Byzantine saint. His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I rose from a straight-back chair in his paneled library as I bowed into the room. As we shook hands before a large window overlooking a garden, a peacock screamed and a large lion walked by on the lawn. Then the Emperor gave me the news about his ancient Christian kingdom, perched Swiss-green and cool above Africa's desert heat. The news: Ethiopia has adopted a new posture in foreign affairs which approximates that of 'our great friend,' Yugoslavia's Marshal Josip Broz Tito...
...lawn of the British Legation in Peking on the afternoon of June 20, 1900, a sergeant reported to the officer commanding the Royal Light Infantry guarding the legation: "Sir, the firing has commenced." The Chinese empire had begun a last feeble fight against the yang kuei-tzu (foreign devils), who had turned China into one of history's great grab bags. In half a century, seven powers had taken eleven bases in China and split 13 of the 18 provinces into "spheres of influence," a gentlemanly phrase for the control of China's trade and government...