Word: lawns
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After the address, Carter seemed jovial. Later in the week he even found time to chase a Frisbee on the White House lawn. His aides, meanwhile, professed to be surprised that most commentators were more impressed by the hard language than the olive branch. Some of the phrasing undoubtedly fueled the worries of Carter's critics about U.S.-Soviet relations. Idaho's Senator Frank Church grumbled: "We are hearing the old tactic, the Russians are coming, the Russians are coming, and it is being used with disturbing frequency...
...almost eight o'clock and the last of the frisbee throwers and tired secretaries had left the Yard. Anchored by one hand under John Harvard's nose and both ankles tucked behind his cold shoulders, I looked out across the lawn. From the far end of the small colony of new tents, down sleeping bags and gas stoves, a lone voice lilted to one tired guitar, singing, "Tenting Tonight." Eastern Mountain Sports must be celebrating tonight, I thought. I read somewhere that wherever, and whenever, a strong wave of student activism surges forth, camping stores crop up like picnic ants...
Begin's trip got off to a cheerful start at the White House-in contrast to his chilly reception last March. He spent two hours with Vance, then half an hour with Carter. Afterward, in a ceremony on the White House lawn, the President pledged "total, absolute American commitment to Israel's security." In response, Begin called Carter's speech "one of the greatest moral statements ever." He acknowledged that no hard bargaining had been attempted. "The changes for the better are only in atmosphere," he said...
...rectify the situation by supervising the construction of an embryonic seven-hole course using flower pots as cups on the Hunnewell lawn...
Thanks to Curtis and Florence Boit, a six-hole course was duly laid out in March of 1893, and ever since The Country Club has been one of the nation's premiere tests of golf. These first holes were "placed on a lawn in front of the clubhouse, in dangerous proximity, as after experience showed, to the front piazza...