Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another of O'Neill's friends, Frank 'Red' McGrail, who has worked on O'Neill's campaigns since 1952, says of O'Neill's extraordinary memory, "He never forgets a face or a name...In Washington, the cabdrivers, the guys who are raking the lawn at the capital, they all love...
Toting sleeping bags, colorful posters and electric guitars, about 50 students last night launched today's national anti-apartheid protest by setting up camp on the lawn outside President Derek C. Bok's Massachusetts Hall office...
...stickered under this system," says Randy Newman. "Even without it, a lot of my stuff has been kept off the radio." Fogerty recalls reading a newspaper column attacking one of his loveliest Creedence Clearwater Revival tunes, Lookin' Out My Back Door, because the writer thought a line about a lawn was a reference to smokable grass...
...smokestack. Despite his initial alarm, neither the Argo nor the Titanic was damaged in these encounters. But in the process, the submersible collected the only artifact so far brought up from the great liner: a smudge of paint scraped from the smokestack. Ballard also disclosed that after "mowing the lawn" with highly advanced technological gear (sweeping his sonar back and forth and checking its soundings with a magnetometer), the expedition had actually located the Titanic with a "25-year-old echo sounder. It could have been done in a fishing boat...
...cuts of meat in a butcher shop, the ruins of a Toltec shrine in Mexico, the flight of migrant starlings in his native Rome. Even while tending the grounds of his summer home, he feels the key to cosmic understanding within his reach: "He no longer thinks of the lawn: he thinks of the universe. He is trying to apply to the universe everything he has thought about the lawn...