Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year, however, the Yale Spoke and Wheel Society and the Harvard satisfactory site for the race. They could not convince Cambridge authorities to let them use the Yard or the Common, and they had to settle for a piece of lawn near the field house. As a result, the race was a dismal failure. In fact, only 50 people were able to locate...
Next day the Kennedys took off for Hyannisport. Boarding a helicopter on the White House lawn, Jack had to wait 20 minutes for Jackie. As he sat reading a newspaper in the chopper, Caroline joined him. Then she spied her Russian dog, Pushinka, a gift last summer from Nikita Khrushchev, and bounded across the lawn in pursuit. President Kennedy got out of the helicopter, retrieved his daughter, sent an aide into the White House to see what was delaying his wife, and finally the family departed. At Andrews Air Force Base, the Kennedys transferred to an Air Force jet, shared...
...probation by Superior Judge Melvyn Cronin; a third was freed for lack of evidence. That night, a gang formed in the street outside Bowman's home. Through a peephole he had cut in a window shade, William Bowman watched their "victory parade," which included cars roaring over his lawn. A few nights later, egg was smeared on the windshield and hood of Bowman's car, bottles were smashed against his house, and rocks were thrown through open windows onto his living-room floor. Bowman's new insurance agent cancelled his auto, home, business theft and damage policies...
...White House, where, on an improvised stage, the American Shakespeare Festival troupers presented excerpts from Macbeth and four other plays. It was Shakespeare's first visit inside the White House, although earlier troupers had declaimed the Bard for Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft on the White House lawn...
...Harold Pinter) ups curtain on a West London room that looks like the Pharaoh's tomb of a junkman. There are bales of yellowed newspapers, moldy tennis rackets, scattered bureau drawers, a sink bowl, and a disconnected gas stove graced with a gilt plaster Buddha. There is a lawn mower and a blowtorch. On a rope strung from the leaky roof hangs a paint bucket into which drops of water plunk like the tick-tock of doom. Into this dusty, chilly tomb, English Playwright Pinter deposits three mummies of modern man, who proceed to strip off each other...