Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...administrators came out in embarrassing procession last week. The authors claimed on the witness stand that they were merely being "diplomatic" and didn't really mean it when they praised Noriega for his "unprecedented" help and "long-standing support." In reality, groused former DEA administrators Peter Bensinger and John Lawn, they viewed General Noriega with suspicion...
...only limited effect. Under dark skies that threatened cloudbursts, evacuees at a Red Cross shelter in Angleton talked eagerly of returning to rebuild near the Brazos. "I prayed the water would never get too high," said Mike Horn, 32, an electrician who fled with creek waters lapping at his lawn. "But I don't care. I'm going home...
After Alice Scott, a black newcomer from Milwaukee, had a cross burned on her lawn and a brick thrown through her window five weeks ago, dozens of residents, including schoolchildren, came by to express their support. "I cried when I saw all those cards and letters," says Scott, 32, who has found a job in a sandwich shop. "This town has some good people, and I'm gonna stay." Adds Charles Azebeokhai, the black head of the city's human rights office: "The only difference between Dubuque and cities like New York and Chicago is that...
...largely unnoticed South Lawn ceremony in October, Bush quietly welcomed industrial policy back to the White House. Flanked by representatives from Detroit's Big Three automakers, the nation's electrical utilities and officials from the Energy Department, Bush signed an agreement committing the government to a three-year, $260 million collaborative search for a small, lightweight battery to power electric cars. Calling the consortium "an idea whose time has come," Bush added, "Electric vehicles represent the next technology milestone in the auto industry, and we intend to beat our competitors to that milestone...
Admiral Kimmel was preparing for his golf game with General Short when an officer phoned him with the news that Japanese planes were attacking his fleet. The admiral was still buttoning his white uniform as he ran out of his house and onto the neighboring lawn of his chief of staff, Captain. John Earle, which had a fine view of Battleship Row. Mrs. Earle said later that the admiral's face was "as white as the uniform he wore...