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Word: lawns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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About 15 protesters remained camped out yesterday next to the four shanties that they began building one week ago on the lawn of the private school to protest its South Africa-related investments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Leave Shanties | 5/2/1986 | See Source »

...urging of Army Buddy Platt, Matix moved down to Miami, where the two transplanted Midwesterners founded their own tree-trimming and lawn-care company, the Yankee Clipper. Then, about a year after Patty Matix's death, Platt's wife Regina was killed by a shotgun blast. Her death was ruled a suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Twisted Trail of Blood | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...quite alien to the pharaonic prettiness of his art. Of the structure, weight, pathos and energy of the human body he has no sense at all, and one result is his inability (shown in paintings like His Behind the Back Pass, 1979, two wooden Frisbee players on a lawn) to do a simple figure in movement. His colloquialisms let him down; arms become sticks, hands a mere bunch of squarish twigs, feet relate badly or not at all to the ground, while faces, most of the time, are little more than masks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Rockwell of the Intelligentsia | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

...think most people caught on," said Irfan S. Ali '89, who was reading on the lawn with roommates. Amy B. Zegart '89 was also sitting in the sun, anddidn't expect Eastwood to show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dirty Harry Fails to Materialize | 4/2/1986 | See Source »

Even so, the Reagan Administration can claim some victories, notably in starting to control the growth of trafficking in the cocaine corridor of Florida and the Caribbean. "We are having a major impact on the supply side," declares John Lawn, chief of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. The South Florida Task Force, launched by President Reagan in March 1982 and headed by Vice President Bush, has brought more personnel and high-tech gear to the task. AWACS-type aircraft and three tethered balloons --soon to be eight--provide radar to help authorities keep track of nearly every plane and ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buried By a Tropical Snowstorm | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

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