Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teacher's aide at a nearby school. Together they earn $40,000 a year. They live with their eight-year-old son Peter in a handsomely renovated Victorian house in a wealthy suburb of Chicago. They have a new car and a new kitchen, and their lawn has no crab grass. Peter has just learned to do handstands. They look like the All-American Family living the All-American Dream. They are also broke. They are not only broke, but $18,000 in debt. "The question is," says Jane, a pug-nosed brunette in preppy red wrap-around skirt...
...believes, for example, that he should have picked up earlier on the problems that the Shah of Iran was having at home. Flipping through the diary pages, he turned to a day in the fall of 1977 when he had stood with the Shah on the White House lawn while tear gas used to disperse protesters near by drifted over them. As the diary reported, Carter then took the Shah into his private study and chided him about the need for more civil rights at home. "He was embarrassed," read the presidential notes about the reprimand...
...part airplane, part motorcycle, part sailboat, and looks like a lawn chair being chased through the sky by a beach umbrella...
...Moonies' escapades were inevitably transparent and usually laughable attempts to exhort students to take up right-wing anti-Soviet causes. On one memorable afternoon, a CARP member dressed as a Russian tank spent a good two hours chasing a mop-wigged colleague (identified as a peace-monger) around a lawn at the center of campus, in an elaborately choreographed ideological skit. On sunny days, CARPies would set up a card table with assorted Moon literature at a central campus transit point Nearby, an associate would lecture to passers by while scrawling compiles and incomprehensible theological diagrams on a portable blackboard...
Behind the backstop, live or six graying men sat in lawn chairs or stood setting up before the twinbill and leaving only after the third out of the fourteenth inning. In between innings, they joked with each other, reeling off the entire line-up (including the plate umpired of a 1960 double a game, reminiscing about a certain' prospect with a great forkball who never made it past the Pioneer League But once play began, their attention returned to the present...