Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...menacing quiet fills the empty streets. Stray dogs and cats poke through the rubble of collapsed houses destroyed by Iranian 122-mm rockets. Here a shell has gouged a water-filled crater in the center of a once lovingly manicured lawn. There a shattered iron gate hangs limply from its hinges outside a small garage. An occasional car filled with wide-eyed Iraqi sightseers cruises the streets, but the passengers seldom stop. It is as if they are afraid the attacks will resume any moment...
...have multiple handicaps: Paul Kuehn, for example, is blind, yet he has the ability to reproduce and create music and is one of the stars of a school group, the Hi Hopes, who have sung to thunderous applause at concerts from Disneyland and Las Vegas to the White House lawn and the stage of Opryland...
...cartel's half a dozen barons, and there is speculation that he may have been set up by one of his brethren who found the arrogant Lehder too power hungry. "We cannot say we have enacted a crippling blow by this arrest," conceded DEA Administrator Jack Lawn. "Its impact lies in the fact that the government of Colombia, in spite of all its losses, has declared its intent...
...while, they played football: on the beaches of Cape Cod, in Soldiers Field for the Harvard varsity, even on the White House Lawn...
...Diego looked just as I remembered--huge mansions surrounded by acres of rocky terrain, orange groves, horse corrals and swimming pools. In the town center I saw a dozen real estate brokers trying to peddle these multi-million dollar insulated retreats, where one never has to contemplate neighbors or lawn mowing or noise. But this time I saw more than just the ranches--I found what makes the luxurious lifestyle possible...