Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stroll with anxious expectation across the broad lawn up to the great white columns of Colonial's porch. The door swings open and you and your group (throughout Bicker, you move in a group of three or four--you are judged, accepted, and perhaps rejected collectively) are swept into the dazzling warm uproar inside. You feel the soft depth of the rug beneath your feet and can see a bright, glittering, well-groomed haze all around you. Up the grand stairway, lined with upperclassmen clapping and cheering, until you reach the top where beaming and blushing abashedly you sign your...
...result, Hoskin, 47, was nearly $50,000 richer last week as he lay ill in his Irish cottage. Outside, flocks of tourists, alerted by front-page treatment of the expose in the British press, trampled the lawn. The embarrassed publishing firm of Seeker & Warburg suspended plans for publication of Hoskin's next book, Medical Lama. Said a U.S. spokesman for Doubleday: "We expected that people would think it was good reading, but not necessarily true." "I am surprised," said Agent Brooks. "He possesses extraordinary powers of telepathy." Ailing Hoaxer Hoskin (he says he has both heart disease and cancer...
...avoid rush-hour tie-ups on the Potomac River bridges, they boarded a Marine Corps helicopter on the White House south lawn in Ike's first such use of a whirlybird. They touched down 3½ minutes later at National Airport. On the flight out, Columbine Pilot Lieut. Colonel William Thomas learned that the Kansas City Municipal Airport was fogged in, instead put down at the Naval Air Station in Olathe, Kans. Startled Navy officials hastily assembled a motorcade of staff cars, managed to get the President and Milton into a Navy Chevrolet for the 27-mile ride into...
...where it should take place. Many corporations argue that a university or management training institute is the best place because it gives the executive a chance to gain a broader perspective by throwing him together with men from many and varied fields (both the Bank of America and Forest Lawn cemetery send their executives to California colleges). Says Dr. Joseph Trickett, professor of management at the University of Santa Clara, and onetime executive: "When you take a man whose work has made him provincial and send him off to Harvard, he sees other men from the entire country with...
...using "a tax-established and tax-supported public school system to aid religious groups to propagate their faith." Cause of the fuss: the board had approved the request of a citizens' committee, headed by Episcopal Mayor Jesse Collyer Jr., that a crèche be built on the lawn of the high school during the Christmas season...