Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before an audience of some 800 foster grandparents and children on the South Lawn of the White House last week. Nancy Reagan, 61, enlisted the help of an old friend when she introduced To Love a Child, the theme song for her pet cause, the Foster Grandparents program. Even without a rehearsal, the First Lady and Frank Sinatra, 66, managed a creditable duet. The number is the work of Veteran Songwriters Hal David, 61, and Joe Raposo, 45. (Sample lyrics: "To love a child/ You start with a smile/ And after a while/ A hug and a kiss/ It takes...
...party last week at Georgia Governor George Busbee's mansion in Atlanta befitted the wealth and financial power of the guests. Strolling under tall oaks on the sloping lawn, hundreds of gray-and blue-suited bankers sipped wine and Jack Daniel's whisky and picked away at whole pigs barbecued over beds of charcoal, bins full of breaded...
...beer in one hand and a bowl of pretzels near the other, the fans lean back to watch the professional football wars. The four-week-long National Football League strike, though, has halted those happy hours. The living-room quarterbacks now have little better to do than mow the lawn or wash...
...South Lawn of the White House, I stood and wept. Tears were streaming down the faces of more than 200 members of the press. In the distance we could hear a mob shouting at the mounted police who had just released canisters of tear gas to disperse them. Unfortunately, an ill wind seemed to have been blowing toward us as we greeted the leader of Iran, and the fumes had engulfed...
Carol Lawler's 15-year-old son was one of the 250,000 people killed during the past 10 years in a drunk driving accident. A drunk driver careened off the road and crushed him as he stood with his family on the lawn of a restaurant. But since the new laws weren't in effect, the man--a repeat offender--received a four-and-a-half year jail sentence and is now eligible for parole after serving only two years. His three drunk passengers walked away from the accident scot-free...