Word: lawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marks the Spot. After the speech, Stevenson and Rayburn drove to Johnson's ranch, arriving shortly before midnight. By next daybreak, reporters and cameramen had already begun to gather on the front lawn. At 7 a.m., Lyndon Johnson emerged, and conducted newsmen on a tour that included the house where he was born, his first school, and the family cemetery. On a vacant plot next to the graves of his grandparents, Johnson marked an "X" with his foot. "Sixty days ago," he said, "that's where I thought I was going...
Without Hatred. Having stated his position, Johnson returned to join Stevenson and Rayburn at a breakfast of Pecos cantaloupe, venison sausage, bacon, scrambled eggs, hominy grits and popovers. At midmorning, a press conference was held on the front lawn. Johnson again explained the circumstances of Adlai's visit. Rayburn said he agreed with everything Johnson had said. "We're not haters," said Rayburn. "We never hated Mr. Eisenhower, and we never will. We're just not built that...
Diana's success has brought her a lavish villa on the Thames (private cinema room with leopardskin chairs, floodlit tennis court, aviary), a powder blue Cadillac ("Blue is a wonderful color for blondes; even our lawn mower is blue"), a 50-ft. launch (for moonlight glides up the river), and a monoplane for longer trips...
...cleaning, while Errol proves, as always, a beryl in peril. He loses nothing but his mustache-but then, what is Errol Flynn without his mustache? As he comes up for the final clinch with the heroine (Joanne Dru), he looks as sapless as Samson on the morning after his lawn was mowed. Or maybe it is only that Errol, at 46, is getting a little old for this sort of thing. So is his public...
...early August. For the second time Mrs. Kane began to take tucks in his uniform, and Peter noticed a big difference in his life: "Before, I used to sit around and give orders. I'd tell the kids, move a chair here, and mow the lawn, and feed the chickens. Now I get up and do it myself...