Word: lawn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...muggy days, the weather at Key West, Fla. was fine. The sky was blue, and out beyond the rustling palms, sunlight glittered on the turquoise shoals and cobalt deeps of the Gulf of Mexico. The nights were cool. But as he settled down for his eighth vacation at the lawn-bordered "Little White House," Harry Truman seemed less intent than usual on savoring the joys of sunburn and exercise...
...women's tournament, lanky, 22-year-old Althea Gibson became the first Negro ever to reach the finals in a national championship sponsored by the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association. Although she lost out next day, her performance made it possible that she would also become the first Negro ever to play in the nationals at Forest Hills this summer...
Other misdemeanors which the watchmen have witnessed this year include cars driven over the lawn, a few cases of "four o'clock howlers" (men who speak into the Quad and call for their women at four a.m.) and a couple of "beer-bottle-breaking parties...
There are some bad features too, which can hardly be avoided. Visitors, for example, complain that the dining room is unfriendly-looking, that the House is divided into two distinct parts by a wide stretch of lawn, and residents must eat the mass-produced food of the central kitchen, perhaps the most-deserved gripe...
...piece of tumbling New England hillside, was a blacksmith shop. Once in a while a short man in an apron would come and hammer resonantly on the anvil; then he would go back across the hall to continue his conversation with the flower girl. On the lawn in front of the shop, a Radcliffe freshman was selling horse shoes for the benefit of the Children's Hospital...