Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King was suffering from an old ulcer, but two eminent British cancer specialists were flown from London to take part in the operation. The surgery was performed in an emergency operating room set up in Tatoi palace, 15 miles north of Athens; a helicopter waited on the palace lawn to fly the King to a hospital if necessary. After 4 hours in the operating room, the five-man surgical team pronounced the operation a success, but Greece was gloomy...
...unstable, erratic, and demanded his impeachment. Even so, Johnson has come in for surprisingly little abuse. The mail brings only about a dozen nasty letters a week (he never replies). None of the old friends he values have cut him. Two boys once burned a cross on the front lawn of his house, but to the judge that was only a boyish prank rather than an attempt to intimidate...
...part of this world, whether we like it or not," he told the sun-drenched Capitol lawn crowd at Jackson. "We are Americans as well as Mississippians." While he is Governor, Johnson vowed, "hate, prejudice or ignorance will not lead Mississippi." He would oppose what he felt was morally and constitutionally wrong. "But if I must fight, it will not be a rearguard defense of yesterday. It will be an all-out assault for our share of tomorrow...
...talked about cigarette smoking and lung cancer, saying there was a new sign over Forest Lawn cemetery: THIS IS MARLBORO COUNTRY. He said that jealous religious types were trying to cash in like the singing nun, but no one was interested in a whistling rabbi. Trying folksiness, he told about the little town in Maine where he once lived: "The place was so small that Howard Johnson carried only one flavor...
Appearing in Western-style dress to give his State-of-the-Union message to Congress, President Johnson urges that the moon be renamed "Kennedy" and then invites all legislators and their wives to a "real slambang" pit barbecue on the White House Lawn. The Bell Telephone Company announces that five-digit postal ZIP codes will be substituted for three-digit area codes "in order to lessen the number of codes a person must remember...