Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Room Service. In East Lansing, Mich., Warren Wood, 33, was charged with drunken driving after his car went out of control, left the highway, crossed a lawn, crashed into a house, bounced through the living room and came to rest in the bedroom two feet from where...
...person who happened to drop in for tea on that Sunday afternoon, he would appear just another man sitting at home entertaining his friends. If the visitor had stopped by a few hours earlier he might have seen him mowing the lawn, or watering his tomato plants, while his wife-his campus sweetheart-tended the flowers. Chances are that if the same person stops at the same place a few years hence he will find the same scene, for Arthur Schlesinger, with his teaching career ended, still has some books to write and some very important things to say. HERBERT...
...stuffing his papers back in the briefcase, disappears again until the next meeting of the class is uncommonly different from the man in shirt tails who walks to and from class with his students, studies with them, eats with them, and fences with them occasionally on the front lawn...
...result of his agitated conferences with London was a last-minute cancellation of the Queen's visit to Kampala. But even with the ceremonial greetings restricted largely to his own well-guarded Government House at Entebbe, Sir Andrew felt far from secure. Last week, on Cohen's lawn, Acholi warriors and women, adorned with leopard skins, ostrich feathers and giraffe tails, pranced to the beat of jungle drums and chanted a song especially composed for the newly arrived Queen: "The daughter of the Chief is ringing her ankle bells. She is our Queen today. As a seabird...
...back the documents delivered to Australia by Petrov, the departing staff at Canberra's Russian embassy spent their last hours getting rid of other information that might prove valuable to the West. Black smoke belched from the embassy chimneys as files went into fireplaces, and on the embassy lawn a Russian stood guard with a hose over a bonfire, not hesitating to turn a full stream of water into the face of any snooper peering through the hedge. In Moscow the Russians held up the departure of the Australian embassy staff, after first ordering them out of the country...