Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...find their home in a house off Kirkland Street. Nearly 50 Cabot House sophomores lived in 29 Garden St. first semester while Eliot Hall underwent renovations, and North House students were housed in the Botanic Gardens apartment building while construction was completed in Moors and Holmes. Meanwhile, the lawn was replaced by a mound of dirt which Quadlings quickly dubbed Mt. Radcliffe...
...Square landing provided an eerie echo of a February 1974 incident in which a disgruntled U.S. Army private stole a helicopter from Fort Meade, Md., and landed it safely on the South Lawn of the White House. Then, as now, officials were shocked at the ease with which an unidentified craft was able to penetrate vital and heavily defended airspace. Initially, the Soviet press drew parallels between the two incidents, as if to minimize their seriousness. But TASS reported that during the emergency Politburo meeting the Soviet leadership took a far harsher view, and Soviet newscasters said an investigation would...
...landing on the White House lawn may have had little long-term impact on U.S. policy of any sort. But Mathias Rust's 16-day joyride, having already shaken the Soviet defense establishment, could have some enduring consequences for the Kremlin -- and the West...
When Reagan and Nakasone first met on the sun-drenched White House South Lawn, the President again used the double-edged sword. Turning to television cameras that were carrying the ceremonies live back to Japan, he spoke of the importance of U.S.-Japanese relations and told of the "great care" that has been taken over four decades "to mold and create this gem of a relationship." Yet he called the gaping trade imbalance between the two countries "unsustainable" and warned that "tangible actions must be taken by us both...
Reagan welcomed Nakasone at a ceremony on the south lawn of the White House during which both leaders pledged to work to end their governments' nagging economic differences, as the Japanese and U.S. flags fluttered behind them...