Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blare of bugles and the whine of bagpipes cut through the chilly Washington night as crack armed forces drill teams wheeled and countermarched on the floodlit White House lawn. From a bal cony watched President John F. Kennedy, and at his side was a welcome guest: Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba, 57, the father of his young country and a staunch friend of the West...
Short of atom-bombing one's lawn (or one's neighbor's), the only way to fight this infiltration is to get down and pluck. This requires, first, a cold, sharp eye and a strong back. Beyond that, it all depends on the gardener's psychological makeup. One familiar type detests routine plucking, but he keeps alert enough en route to his car in the morning or to the backyard barbecue in the evening, and can spot, swoop and pluck without so much as a change in stride or loss...
...with most of the other difficulties with the Loeb, this situation is not entirely a case of short-sighted administrational bullying. This year students have stolen a 16 mm movie projector, some large glass ash trays, spotlights buried in the front lawn, and several tools...
...appears in the center of the screen after the set has been turned off. Part of the torpor is by now hereditary. What was new was the annual Oscar awards' spectacular morbidity. The night dragged on as a kind of animated obituary, part Beverly Hills and part Forest Lawn, which, it was suggested, may reflect the advancing years of many Academy members and their inevitable preoccupation with the last fadeout...
...capitalismus atavis was turned up by Rural Life, in the central Russian town 'of Rylsk. Though Fedor Kuznetsov had lived in Rylsk for 30 years, he was oddly asocial. His house was surrounded by a high board fence; in the evenings, music blared inexplicably from loudspeakers on the lawn. He never entertained, made the postman put the mail through a slit in the fence. Until he retired five years ago, Kuznetsov worked as a valenki (felt boots) maker in a commune, dutifully handed in his monthly norm of 15 pairs of valenki per month. For some reason, he insisted...