Word: lawns
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...first members of the "Americorps," which aims to get America's youth involved in community service and provides money for college in return. But even this feel-good event had a gray cloud: the White House was supposed to host one of the photo-op ceremonies on the South Lawn, but the event had to be moved because of the plane wreckage strewn on Bill and Hillary's lawn. (See above.) The oath was administered to a total of 20,000 throughout the country by satellite...
Walking over to the Gonzo stage, we confirmed the rumor that the Great Woods lawn had been converted to a beach, Despite our best efforts, we couldn't avoid stepping the many soggy, sandy blankets that littered the place. I was thankful that The Crimson had gotten me a seat under the Pavilion, where I could enjoy the show without collecting water and sand in my shoes...
...enough for the President, who started one-to-one meetings with Democratic legislators to get them to support the bill while pursuing a furious counteroffensive that includes commercials purchased by the Democratic National Committee, aired on CNN. At rallies last week in New Jersey and on the White House lawn, Clinton pounded the podiums with calls for the G.O.P. to get with the program. "If Bob Dole and the special interests win," Vice President Al Gore told another crowd on Capitol Hill, "millions of Americans will lose...
...distress call about the shooting, they encountered him walking down a highway away from the clinic. He had more than a dozen shotgun shells strapped to his leg, ankle and pocket. He refused to tell them where the gun was, police said. (They found one on the clinic lawn.) But he did say, "I know one thing: there won't be any more babies killed today...
...hipster's stylish alienation was irresistible to youth, for whom style is the best defense against anxiety and alienation is the natural state. For suburban teens in particular, hipness became what romance novels were for Madame Bovary: an antidote to the featureless local realities. In subdivisions where the lawn sprinklers went back and forth, back and forth -- the metronomes of the trudging suburban eternity -- a Bob Dylan album and a late-night movie performance of Putney Swope could seem like blows against the Empire...