Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whisked from the White House lawn to Washington National Airport by a Marine Corps helicopter, President Eisenhower flew to New York in Columbine III, sped to Park Avenue's Waldorf-Astoria in his bubble-top Lincoln. In his 35th-floor...
With a front-lawn place kick, Amos Alonzo Stagg warmed up to watch a football game between two teams of Sacramento Valley high school allstars, who dedicated their contest to the grand old man of football on his 96th birthday. All set for his 68th coaching season (as advisory punting coach at California's Stockton College), the Yale '88 All-American and onetime coach of the University of Chicago, the College of the Pacific, and Susquehanna University found paydirt in the congratulatory mail. Among the notes from old quarterbacks, halfbacks and fullbacks were 10,690 greenbacks-insurance companies...
...Washington on Monday morning hung oppressive and muggy. At 8 o'clock the rain began to fall in a dismal drizzle, slicking the streets, washing the stone and concrete faces of the capital. The raindrops beaded the row of semicircular windows off the White House south lawn and snaked down the panes. Behind the windows, seated in his red leather chair, President Eisenhower pored grimly over the news dispatches and diplomatic intelligence that told of Iraq's fall...
...palm) was a royal indoor tennis court built by Napoleon III in 1862. The game, known as jeu de courte paume, derived from a sort of handball to which racquets were added, was for centuries the rage in France. In the 1890s the game lost popularity to English lawn tennis...
...reach Tanglewood by automobile, take the Mass. Turnpike to Exit 2. Tickets to the lawn are on sale at all gates before each scheduled concert...