Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...upon ourselves to test the evidence presented to the public in TIME in order to corroborate the validity of the article. Consequently, we announced to the student body of our small high school that I would throw ten eggs a maximum distance onto the school's luxuriantly soft lawn. Naturally, as this was a sporting event, we could not resist taking a few modest bets from various other students who challenged our claim that six of the ten eggs would remain unbroken...
...Julie in Vogue. She led millions of television viewers on a tour of the White House living quarters, displaying an enviable stage presence as she showed off family mementos and shared some family secrets. Then she was hostess to 2,000 children at a concert on the White House lawn. Questioned by reporters following the concert, Tricia said that her television appearance had brought her several offers of on-camera jobs. She turned them down. "What I'd really like," she said as she watched newsmen scribble down her answers, "is a job like yours...
...soon were reinforced by nightstick-toting plainclothesmen. There followed what by most accounts was a police riot: the cops went berserk, clubbing students and bystanders indiscriminately. Among the casualties was Senior Richard Winstead, a former all-state basketball star and campus beau ideal. Strolling on the Dekehouse lawn with a date, Winstead was wrestled into some bushes and stick-whipped by policemen. Undergraduates were appalled. "You know," said one Greek, "we never believed the black students about police brutality. We thought the Freaks deserved whatever they got. Now it's close to home...
...college campus. A mob of angry, jeering students provoking a line of nervous armed peace officers. Rumors of snipers. The crash of rocks and bottles. And suddenly some signal triggering an atavistic convulsion brought on an unexpected eruption of gunfire. Finally, the youthful bodies, bleeding on the smooth campus lawn. The scene this time was Mississippi's predominantly black Jackson State College...
...Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis, their two-foot stone eyeballs popping and their megalithic hats held reverently over their huge hearts, rode across the cliff face on horses that seemed to have been resurrected from a dim memory of the Parthenon frieze by the resident soapcutter of Forest Lawn...