Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when most of the people around you are male. But the Yard's size--there are over 1200 people in it, about three-fourths of the freshman class--makes it easy to get to know people just by sitting with them at the Union or playing frisbee on the lawn, and there are always the mixers and the waterfights if you get desparate for company...
...tremendous summer." His two children got the chicken pox, and he explored a whole new field of community relations as the bug spread in his neighborhood. But there probably was no finer hour, he claims, than the August morning when he walked out his front door and declared his lawn "a wilderness area" to be left untouched for the remainder of the season. "My contribution to conservation," he explained...
Provenzano later shooed the newsmen away. "You're embarrassing me in front of everyone in the neighborhood. You guys out on the lawn make me look like a mobster. I'm not. I'm just a truck driver." Provenzano consented, however, to give a photographer a guided tour of his house. A Doberman pinscher snarled behind a door ("He could take your arm off," advised Tony Pro), but the rest of the house was peaceful. There was a big swimming pool out in back, a pool table in one room, and a handcarved teak bust that...
...population. Local wildlife authorities receive a dozen complaints a week about coyotes making off with dogs or cats. One Brentwood Hills matron lost three cats in 18 months; a Briarcliff public relations man reports losing a treasured Persian cat when a coyote "trotted right up to our front lawn and casually carried it off." Says Charles Rosenberg, a stockbroker in suburban Sherman Oaks: "At 10:30 at night, it is always the same thing: the howling begins, then the bloodcurdling screams, then silence...
...about two and a half hours via the Massachusetts Turnpike, Interstate 80 and 91, and the Connecticut Turnpike to Exit 32 or 31. Performances in the air conditioned theatre tend to begin rather promptly at 2 p.m. or 8 p.m. and a group of singers offers madrigals on the lawn beforehand. There are free facilities for picnickers on the premises...