Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late summer and early fall, starlings used the treetops as a dormitory. Their droppings, which covered the ground, have the right chemical composition and acidity for Histoplasma to flourish. In cities starlings usually roost in buildings, but even where they stay in trees the terrain underneath is generally lawn or pavement; Milan just happened to offer the right circumstances. To make Milan's school parking lot and playground inhospitable to Histoplasma, the town will blacktop them as soon as the frost is out of the ground...
...road running through a 1,100-acre tract of West Covina wilderness. Others, on horseback, patrolled the tract's borders, looking for signs of surreptitious spadework. What West Covina's residents were trying to do was prevent the expansion into their split-level suburb of Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, the chain of cemeteries dedicated to Builder Hubert Eaton's proposition that the dead should not only rest in peace but also in culture...
...last preinaugural meeting with Dwight Eisenhower. The two talked privately for about 45 minutes, during which Ike demonstrated the procedure for evacuating the White House in case of emergency. Ike lifted the phone, spoke a few words; five minutes later, an Army helicopter was hovering over the White House lawn. Suitably impressed, Kennedy strolled over to the Cabinet Room with Ike to meet with incoming Secretaries Dillon, McNamara and Rusk and their outgoing opposite numbers. Laughed Ike: "I've shown my friend here how to get out in a hurry...
...aging bishops before him, who barely filled a quarter of Westminster Church House Assembly Hall, stared listlessly at the agenda-the revised catechism, an address on science and religion, "Is Suicide a Sin?" But with the Archbishop's first sentence came a fluttering of crimson surplices and white lawn sleeves. After 15 years in the see of St. Augustine, Dr. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 73, announced his retirement...
...Among those accepting: Jack Kennedy.) Amid the clamor of hammers as workmen put up the viewing stands for the Kennedy inaugural parade near the Treasury, other workmen quietly dismantled the lights and ornaments from the 70-ft. fir tree on the White House lawn-President Eisenhower's last Christmas tree as Chief Executive. And in the stores of F Street and Connecticut Avenue, salesmen reported with satisfaction that sales of top hats (at $40 and up), in conformity with Jack Kennedy's plans, had outstripped the black Homburg, an inaugural innovation that came with Dwight Eisenhower and, apparently...