Word: lawn
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While he lived in Washington, Rhee spent most of his leisure time outdoors. He took great pleasure in mowing his lawn, spent many a Sunday afternoon in a rented rowboat fishing the Potomac. Aside from an occasional game of tennis with his wife, his only active sport was croquet, also a favorite game of former Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who had so stubbornly ignored the claims of Rhee's government. One afternoon in 1943 Rhee interrupted a croquet game with some friends to tune in a broadcast of the Cairo Conference communique. He listened quietly to the communique...
Lowell tried to score with the passing of Bobby Lawn, but the Funster pass defense was almost perfect. The ground attack of both teams was sloppy, forcing third down punting to minimize losses due to poor ball handling...
University police have instructions to preserve the dignity of the Yard by pushing on all lawn-sitters from picnickers to mothers tending their babies...
Sergeant James C. Toomey says there has been little trouble enforcing the rule since the warm weather. But Yard cop Thomas McCarraher has been having difficulty with one mother whom he has warned six days in succession not to sit on the lawn while her child is playing. "I feel badly about having to keep after her," McCarraher said. "But I don't make the regulations; I just carry them...
...chestnut has been sold by commercial nurseries for some time in small quantities, but the Department of Agriculture is not interested in lawn or even orchard chestnuts. What it wants is a tree that will establish itself under forest conditions. If Castanea mollissima does so on a large scale, a side benefit may be an upsurge of wild turkeys, which once lived largely on chestnuts, and were greatly reduced in numbers when the blight killed the trees...