Word: lawns
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Another recent Vellucci project was the creation of a community vegetable garden on the overpass between the Yard and the Science Center. Since it passes over Cambridge Street, he argued, the city owned the overpass by virtue of "air rights." Although Harvard has officially agreed with this position, the lawn and shrubbery have yet to be torn up for rutabagas...
...response was unusually sharp. The State Department expressed its "disgust," and Attorney General Edwin Meese called the incident a "shocking blow to international law enforcement." The Drug Enforcement Administration's reaction was even more scathing. Said DEA Chief John Lawn: "I'm shocked at the cowardice shown by the government of Colombia...
Something decidedly odd is going on at the old mansion. The crackle of splintering wood emanates from the broken windows. A bathroom sink of heroic proportions has been plunked down on the overgrown lawn, and a man is chipping at a graffiti-painted wall with hammer and chisel. "Alllll right! " he says with a smile. "This stone is so wet it's going to come right off with a jackhammer...
Built around 1907, the Tudor-Gothic mansion was a fine example of careful stonework and superbly finished interiors, set down on a luxuriant plot of waterfront lawn on Jamaica Bay. It began as a residence for Henry Heinschiemer, an eccentric New York banker whose security system included a sign that read, GENTLE STRANGER TURN BACK. When the age of grand living had passed it by, the big home became a hospital for joint diseases, then a private school for retarded children and later a rabbinical school. Now it is a bag lady of a building. A fire has destroyed much...
...library, where Secretary of State George Shultz and Lieut. General Colin Powell, the National Security Adviser, explained the language to him. Informed that the Joint Chiefs were satisfied with the text, Reagan approved it. Then he went to shake hands with Gorbachev before accompanying him to the South Lawn for the farewell ceremony...