Word: palmful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Through the White House switchboard. Gerald Ford spoke to Republican Senators from his home in Palm Springs, Calif. At the White House dinner for Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, Carter even asked Lovelorn Columnist Ann Landers to help out. She agreed and called Pennsylvania Senator Richard Schweiker...
Inspired by the famed Palm House of England's Royal Botanic Gardens, the conservatory's 90-ft.-high dome and ten interconnecting pavilions cover nearly an acre. Within that glass palace, Horticulturist Carleton Lees has created what he calls "a living museum so that people can see what the real world was like in the past." After all, he explains, "we're more related to these things than we are to the automobile. They live and breathe like...
...series of matches against host team Flagler College. The college's namesake was Henry M. Flagler, who singlehandedly developed much of Florida's east coast. The first golfing oasis he built was none other than Ponce de Leon. Flagler went on to develop what were to become Miami and Palm Beach, where he built what was then the largest resort hotel in America...
Outside of West Palm Beach is a great miniature golf course adjacent to another phenomenon of modern technology--a giant slide. These Mt. Everests of the playground world provide a challenge to the most skilled six-year-old. You can imagine the difficulties I encountered trying to steady myself as I rapidly descended the metal mountain hoping to finish ahead of my less streamlined roommates...
...should enlist in the army for training as a radio technician. When his wife brings up Gavino's illiteracy, Efisio dismisses her misgivings and assures her that their eldest will learn quickly. He then quizzes Gavino on multiplication tables, greeting his son's off-the-mark guesses with a palm planted squarely on Gavino's right cheeck and shouts of "Ignoramus!" Gavino's blue eyes burn with an all-too-familiar rage, but when his father is called, Gavino and his family dutifully follow into another room. But we can see in his eyes that Gavino Ledda has resolved never...