Word: lawns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...after three months of futile resistance, the companies coughed up the first $39 million due under Manley's plan to multiply eightfold the taxes and royalties on bauxite mined out of the Jamaican earth. The payments presage substantial price increases in the U.S. on aluminum products ranging from lawn chairs to beer cans-and foreshadow difficulties industrialists may encounter from now on in dealing with poor countries that possess vital raw materials...
...Turnpike, Interstate 91, and the Connecticut Turnpike to Exit 32 or 31. Performances in the air-conditioned Theatre begin promptly at 2 and 8 p.m. There are free facilities for picnickers on the premises; and a vocal quartet, accompanied by a lutanist, perform Elizabethan madrigals in costume on the lawn prior to each performance...
Richard Nixon's helicopter had barely touched down on the White House lawn when the tanned and smiling President bounced out and waggled a circled thumb and forefinger at his welcoming crowd. The small gesture signaled his satisfaction with the success of his trip to the Middle East. It seemed to symbolize too the widespread feeling among his aides that he had, as one put it, "turned the corner" on Watergate and was rebounding from that disaster...
...caravan arrived with thunder and a blast of hot air from the helicopter rotors and the speeches on the south lawn of the White House. Almost as if Nixon's arrival were a signal, the high-energy politicians began to shoot off and collide with each other. The presidential propaganda office cranked out in awed gasps stories of the millions of joyful Arabs who had shouted praises for Nixon. Press Secretary Ron Ziegler talked in super-superlatives of new eras, of more and better chances for peace. There were box scores of miles traveled (14,775), records broken (first...
...first two days of the 20-race, three-day regatta were sailed in three to five knot winds, which gave a large advantage to sailors with local knowledge. Both of Princeton's two skippers hail from the Newport Beach area and, indeed, the regatta headquarters was established on the lawn of one of the Princeton women's home...