Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long, black Lincoln Continenal pulled up to the West Wing of the White House last week, presidential staff members gathered on the lawn and crowded onto the balconies of the adjacent old Executive Office Building. The occasion had all the drama of a summit conference, and, in a sense, that is what it was: Senator Edward Kennedy, wearing a diplomat's dark blue suit, had come calling on President Jimmy Carter. For the first time in their bitter, seven-month contest for the Democratic presidential nomination, the candidates were meeting face to face...
...more than ten years, said he began to feel the enormity of the disaster days later: "I've skied there, hiked there, worked there as a fire watch. Just last Saturday I was visiting old Harry Truman. Spirit Lake was absolutely calm, and Harry was running his lawn sprinklers. Now it's all gone...
Harry was last seen on Saturday evening, watering his lawn. Today the site of his camp is a steaming mass of mud and water...
...ashtray, Ritzville looked as though it had been hit by an avalanche. The town was caked in dust and mud. Streets had 2-ft. drifts. On South Adams Street, Mrs. Erma Miller's once meticulously landscaped ranch-style house looked as if it were in a desert. The lawn had disappeared almost completely. Branches were broken from two formerly flowering hawthornes. There was a 4-ft. drift on the patio. Said Mrs. Miller, leaning on her snow shovel: 'You ought to see the inside. You can't keep the dust out.' "Within hours of the storm...
Enter her new lawn-distance neighbor. Hannah Mae Bindler (Eileen Brennan), a Lone-Star State emigree, is wearing a garish outfit, and her accessories are an unstoppered tongue and the musk of a rampant libido. Culture clash soon gives way to kaffeeklatsch. Maude reveals that her husband is off on one of his adulterous secretarial safaris. Despite having suffered the occasional infidelity, Hannah Mae claims that her husband Carl Joe "don't take a breath unless I say, 'Carl Joe, breathe...