Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Davenport, Iowa, Mayor Thom Hart held a cookout at his house: pork sandwiches, fruit and five different kinds of potato salad. During a press conference on the front lawn, Grechko started taking pictures of all the cameras that were focusing on him. Neighbors came by, and everyone had a good time. A young guy, in old jeans, a T shirt and long dark hair, was impressed. "It's like a rock concert," he said, which it wasn't. "You can feel the good vibes," which you could...
...Will, whose protagonist is an American hostage. The situation is familiar ("I'm sitting in a foreign country/ In an army barracks hidden in the hills/ I've been here for nearly seven months now"), but the sentiments are not likely to get the Del-Lords invited to a lawn party at the White House: "It wasn't my vote that put the cowboy on the hill/ But I'm the Devil of the West himself/ To a band of wild-eyed men/ Now in the name of God we're being held against our will...
...real excitement came the following day. On Alvin's third dive, the scientists deployed "Jason Jr.," a self-propelled, lawn-mower-size robot armed with still and video cameras. Guided by Bowen, the robot -- nicknamed "J.J." -- made oceanographic history by actually entering the Titanic. It glided down the ship's grand staircase at the end of a 250-ft. tether through which it transmitted live images to the three scientists in Alvin's cramped cabin. There was nothing left of the staircase itself; like much of the Titanic's celebrated woodwork, it had long since been devoured by wood-boring...
...rock house busted in south-central Los Angeles looked perfectly innocuous on the outside: a white stucco duplex with a neatly trimmed lawn. Inside, a hallway leading to a bedroom had been walled off. Behind the barrier, a surveillance camera was trained on customers in the living room. The drug salesman, sitting in a kitchen equipped with three telephones and a box full of cash, remained unseen behind a fortified door but was able to monitor the outer room via closed-circuit TV. Buyers spoke to the seller through an intercom. Money and drugs were passed through a tiny opening...
...woman was wearing sunglasses and sitting in a lawn chair under a tree. She was reading a romance novel and listening to the Boston Red Sox-Texas Rangers game on the radio...