Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...According to the chief surgeon, Dr. Ezzeldine Hoseny. more than 500 Egyptians had died in his hospital during the two days of fighting in Port Said. At one point corpses were piled nearly as high as a man's head in three sheds and covered the entire back lawn of the hospital. When Dr. Hoseny showed me around two of the sheds were still well filled, as was much of the garden...
...part of Kirkland's administration. Holworthy Hall, completed in 1812 from the proceeds of a successful lottery, became the most popular place of residence. University Hall was completed in 1815, and pigs and other undesirable objects were driven out of the Yard to be replaced by elms and a lawn...
Died. William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, 86, walrus-mustached, stogiechomping, classics-quoting onetime (1931-35) governor of Oklahoma, two-term (1913-17) Congressman, who carried his lunch to work, planted chickpeas on the lawn of the governor's mansion, called out the National Guard to successfully defy Texas and a federal court by closing a Red River toll bridge during a legal hassle, next month used militia again to shut down Oklahoma's gushing oilfields until purchasers raised their bids to private well owners; after a stroke; in Oklahoma City. He campaigned ("Bread and Butter, Bacon and Beans...
...Since it was a warm day," he had told us, "I took off my shirt so as to get a tan, and before I knew it a blustery man breezed up on a motorized lawn-mower, and said, 'Hey, Mac, put on your shirt,' so I said, 'Listen, buddy, I got more clothes on than most people around here,' at which point he spun around his machine in search of greener laws to mow." We stuck in our shirt-tale and the mist thickened...
...vote. The Talmadges moved into the ugly stone governor's mansion in Atlanta's posh Ansley Park. Because Gene and Mattie (known to two generations of Georgians as "Miss Mitt") wanted to give the mansion a homey atmosphere, they shocked neighbors by tethering a cow on the lawn...