Word: mowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flat as hospital corridors. Like a hospital, Levittown has rules all its own. Fences are not allowed (though here & there a homeowner has broken the rule). The plot of grass around each house must be cut at least once a week; if not, Bill Levitt's men mow the grass and send the bill. Wash cannot be hung out to dry on an ordinary clothesline; it must be arranged on rotary, removable drying racks and then not on weekends or holidays...
Later Palmira reflected, "Of course, [the American sailors] are tools of the capitalist system and they are probably ready to mow down workers. Still it was nice of them to hide their anti-worker feelings today. They are good boys. I don't know whether what I say makes any sense, but . . . I am confused...