Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swarmed out of the woods. Mrs. Leakey rushed to the bathroom with her daughter and helped her escape through a trap door into an attic above. Mrs. Leakey herself was too weak to follow. When Diana emerged an hour later, her mother was lying dead on the lawn, cruelly slashed with Mau Mau knives. Gray Leakey was nowhere to be found...
...painted, roofs are replaced ... automobiles dismantled and polished." Three years ago Kelley got to thinking about his boyhood Sundays, when "I can never recall a nail driven or a blade of grass shorn." Kelley and his family have since done their chores on Saturdays. The result is that "our lawn was never in such good condition . . . More than that, the keeper of the lawn has never been in such good condition either...
...convinced that this year's best is not good enough, the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association is trying to build for the future. A couple of promising teenagers will travel with the Davis Cup team just for experience; a group of other youngsters, coached by crafty old-Pro Jack Kramer, has been learning the pitfalls of the summer-tournament circuit at home...
Virus & Soup. Close to a hundred reporters promptly hustled out to Joe and Marilyn's rented (at $750 a month) Beverly Hills home. But no one got in. As the newsmen sprawled on the lawn, trampled down rose bushes or broke branches from trees to get unobstructed views for their cameras, a crowd lined the street. From Marilyn's lawyer, Jerry Giesler, newsmen picked up bits, reported that Marilyn was upstairs sick in bed "with a virus" while Joe "brewed a pot of soup for his ailing wife." When a reporter asked why Joe didn't move...
...rigid rules. From now on, participation in a divorce action will not be grounds for automatic exclusion from the royal enclosure. The same old rigid rules would still govern admission to the patch of ground immediately before the Queen's box, known as the "Queen's Lawn." And now that the big barrier is down, said the duke, the size of the royal enclosure will be doubled...