Word: lawns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that kind of a week for Kennedy. With Jackie in Palm Beach, the President took over some of her social chores. More than 1,000 music pupils and high school, students swarmed onto the newly planted South Lawn to hear the Central Kentucky Youth Symphony Orchestra performing at one of Jackie's cultural programs. At another garden party for 100 foreign Fulbright scholars, the President was upstaged by a 17-month-old Arab girl, who cavorted around him and cried "Mommie, mom-mie," while Kennedy saluted "some of the brightest minds from abroad." Said the President, manfully ignoring...
...misery of slanting rain and snow buffeted the helicopter ride from Andrews Air Force Base to the White House lawn. But beneath the north portico, President Kennedy warmed his visitor with a welcome that went far beyond diplomatic platitudes. "You represent all that we admire in a political leader," said Kennedy to Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt. "Your liberal leadership of your country, your persistent determination to make a better life for your people, your long fight for democratic leadership . . . all these have made you, for us, a symbol of what we wish for our own country...
...Tokyo, where he walked into the vestibule of a small nightclub, smiled at the manager and burst into a ringing, ball-peen rendition of John Henry. He was boffo. He got a square meal and a bed. In Australia a few months later, members of the New South Wales Lawn Tennis Association looked up from an outdoor luncheon to see one of their members approaching followed by "a wandering Yank who sort of popped in and wants to sing us a song." Buddy gave them up-tempo renderings of Waltzing Matilda and Seven Old Ladies. The N.S.W.T.A. members responded with...
...Russell promised to "give all our people the opportunity they truly deserve," pledged that "we shall work out our problems peaceably, according to our standards of justice and decency." Later, for the first time in memory, Negroes were invited to mix with whites in a buffet reception on the lawn of the governor's mansion. Several hundred showed...
...been Joint Master of the Foxhounds of the Galway Blazers, for whom he gave a party one night last week that lasted until break of day, while Huston's fellow huntsmen, 500 strong, milled around under three marquees set up on the master's spacious lawn. "I like horses and deep country and the Irish pleasantries," says Huston. "I like the life in Ireland, there's more variety...