Word: mowers
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...croquet equipment costing as much as $3,500, the sport's appeal to the masses is limited. The court at Sonoma-Cutrer, built on 16 in. of sand from Bodega Bay, is mowed three times a day during the tournament to exactly three-sixteenths of an inch by lawn-mower blades with the precision of Ginsu knives and then groomed with a metal comb by a greenkeeper. The dependable sogginess that keeps British courts so lush is helped along here by a state- of-the-art sprinkler and drainage system percolating at 32 in. an hour. The boundaries and hoops...
Signs of separation persist in the city's neighborhoods, nightclubs, gazes and words. A perspiring black man, nattily dressed in suspenders, white shirt and a hat, pushes a mower across a lush lawn just yards from the elite, whites-only Greensboro Country Club. Downtown, as professionals head home at night from glistening glass office buildings, an army of blacks -- so-called invisible people -- arrives to empty the trash and vacuum the floors. One leading white liberal lapses, unconsciously perhaps, into talk about "coloreds" and "black boys...
...typical May afternoon in the District of Columbia's George Washington University Medical Center: half a dozen suspected heart attacks; a man who was mowing the lawns at Oak Hill cemetery and caught his foot in the mower; another who was cleaning the meat-slicing machine at a restaurant and cut off his fingertip. A 40-year-old man with black hair and gray skin is complaining of sharp stomach pains. He is HIV positive and taking AZT. "That's what someone looks like who's going to die soon," Dr. Michael Bourland explains quietly as he moves on. Doctors...