Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dean of the Faculty, Elmwood's future association with the University is assured. The splendid history of the old house is best captured in imagined scenes from the past. One can picture Thomas Oliver sitting on a window seat looking nervously out at the angry crowd on the lawn of his country house; Elbridge Gerry staying up into the late hours, poring over maps by candlelight and contorting electoral districts into weird configurations; James Russell Lowell leading lively discussions in the sitting room, gazing out the window from time to time at the horse chestunt tree he raised from seed...
Seated in a cushioned wicker chair on his Hyannis Port lawn, the President of the U.S. submitted to a taped television interview by CBS's Walter Cronkite. Beforehand, presidential aides had suggested that Cronkite ask questions about the crisis in South Viet Nam. He did-and President Kennedy was ready with some remarkable replies...
...party. After dinner, the 116 guests followed the President and his sister, Eunice Shriver, official White House hostess because of Jackie's convalescence, up to the second-floor balcony for the show. After the marching and the bagpipes, the fireworks began bursting and blasting on the South Lawn. It was a magnificent display, although it did startle some Washingtonians who phoned newspapers and police stations to find out what all the noise was about...
...steamy, palm-shaded Kuching, capital of Sarawak, the day's biggest excitement is the firing of the 8 p.m. cannon on the lawn of government house. "What a dull place," said a United Nations official. "I don't know how we're going to survive three weeks here." At the insistence of Indonesia's President Sukarno, an eight-member U.N. team is present to "ascertain" whether Sarawak and North Borneo really want to join the Federation of Malaysia, which Sukarno bitterly opposes. As the U.N. ascertainers began to sample opinions around Sarawak, they were nearly stoned...
...form, this year he has won the national indoor singles and doubles, the national intercollegiate singles and doubles, and his share of the Davis Cup matches against Mexico. At his worst, he has misbehaved badly enough to get a four-month suspension from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association, and blew his chances at Wimbledon in July by booting away an early match...