Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NATION and PRESS) proved especially dramatic and exciting. "It was a high point for any reporter who has covered China in the past," says Bernstein. "There was an unreal quality in seeing that leader of a once bitter enemy receive a 19-gun salute on the White House lawn and be given a standing ovation by business and political leaders in Atlanta...
Thus, on the day following Teng's arrival, the Vice Premier was to be given full honors on the south lawn of the White House: a 19-gun salute ringing out from cannon on the ellipse, national anthems played by the Marine Band, honor guards from the five uniformed services. Among the battle flags the servicemen were to carry on their standards: pennants commemorating U.S. combat against the Chinese in the Korean War. Carter faced a protocol problem of his own in his welcoming speech. Should he mention China's Premier and Party Chairman Hua Kuo-feng? His advisers said...
...after almost a decade of trimming fat-mowing the lawn less often, deferring painting and plastering, scrapping expansion plans, reducing support staff-private colleges face the prospect of still deeper cuts. Notes Notre Dame's Hesburgh: "The situation is all the more dangerous because it is a slow-burning crisis that could gradually erode the financial health of many institutions before the country wakes up to the problem...
Surely Professor Cassidy would like to know that in Baltimore when a man mows his grass he is said to be out on his lawn with his "paramour...
Carter, after jogging calmly around the South Lawn, called in congressional leaders for a 6:15 p.m. briefing and then swore them to secrecy...