Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the city ruminates on its revised history, the fire will be commemorated in a concert on the lawn of the Chicago Historical Society by the Chicago Chamber Orchestra Association, which will offer its own brand of fireworks: Haydn's "Fire" Symphony, Handel's Royal Fireworks Music, Ives' Fireman's Parade on Main Street and Dittersdorf's The Fall of Phaethon (about a god who burned to death...
...look up family dates." Yet his memory of Talcottville as "a clean and trim settlement" soon proves out of date. Some of its houses are "tumbledown" and "squalid," its citizens "ambitionless." Highways are closer and larger. Birch Society posters recommend impeaching Earl Warren. Teen-age motorcyclists ride across the lawn and drink on Wilson's porch, forcing him to scare them away "with a roar and the ancient gun that a Civil War collector in Boonville had offered to buy as a relic...
...closet of the country club. "There are no answers," he announces with the pride of someone who has solved the riddie of the Sphinx. "You've just got to start by starting." So saying, he takes Lisa, clad only in a towel, and charges across the well-populated lawn of the country club like Ben Braddock dashing out of the church. As Alren and Lisa jump into their car and head for a happy ending, a white towel comes sailing out the window and floats slowly to earth...
Drawing Doodles. Galley lifts weights in his living room to keep in shape, is allowed on the lawn behind his apartment for daily exercise periods. Neighbors have seen several bags of cow manure delivered to fertilize the vegetables Calley grows in his backyard. His evening meal is occasionally prepared by Miss Moore...
...Part of an air duct came down on my head and I could not move. There was thick, choking smoke and water spewing from broken pipes. Soon the smoke began to clear. People milled about the crumpled, crying victims lying bleeding on the lawn. None, luckily, was dead. One girl, an employee of the hotel, had been completely buried under three feet of rubble. When they dug her out, all she could say was: 'I knew I should not have come to work today...