Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...famed Rose Garden. It is still the setting for many ceremonial occasions. The only thing is, it is no longer very rosy. Many rose plants have been removed and replaced with other flora; the idea is to keep the area in bloom all year round. The South Lawn, once a classic mixture of crab grass, Kentucky bluegrass and good old American weeds, has been plowed up and resodded with as deep a green carpet of bluegrass as ever a presidential helicopter dripped oil upon...
...seriously suggests that Nehru will be replaced as India's leader while he lives. To his country, he is not a statesman but an idol. Each morning, large crowds assemble on the lawn outside his New Delhi home. Some present petitions or beg favors, but thousands, in recent weeks, have handed over money or gold dust for the national defense. Most come just to achieve darshan, communion, with the country's leader. The throng is comforted and reassured, not by the words, but by the presence of Nehru...
...Ozarks, have moved to Beverly Hills to live among the polychrome celebrities of show biz. Pa bought a house built by John Barrymore, and the place is easily large enough to be mistaken for a university. Pa takes an appreciative look at the smooth and gorgeous sweep of lawn and says, "Fine, we'll commence plowing tomorrow...
Thin Hog. First things first: got to find water. Pa is in the habit of drilling wells with a shotgun. First he walks the lawn with a forked stick. The stick goes crazy because the lawn has a buried sprinkler grid. Pa fires a load into the sod just as the gardener turns on the system. "I ain't never missed yet," crows Pa. Granny peers into the deep freeze and complains that all the vittles is froze. "People ought to know better'n to store food up against a north wall," says...
...anti-Chinese slogans and waving banners reading "Choke the yellow opium eaters!" and "Wipe Out Chink Stink!" That evening, brandishing torches, the students charged police lines before the office of the Communist Party while a handful of Red underlings cowered in the darkness behind a hedge on the office lawn. The desperate Indian Communists finally issued a party statement denouncing both Moscow and Peking, and appealing to "all sections of the people to unite in defense of the motherland...