Word: seeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week architects were busy drawing plans for an office building to replace the Garden-long since gone to seed-while bartenders and chambermaids were out hunting new jobs. Come fall, bulldozers will grunt across the grounds, toppling the tall cypresses and pepperwoods. Tons of earth will be dumped into the swimming pool in which wobbly guests once cooled their hangovers. Soon, sightseeing buses will drive along the curve of Sunset Boulevard between Schwab's Drugstore and the gabled Marmont Chateau, with rubberneck guides remembering nasally: "Alla Nazimova lived here once. Paramount built her a mansion. The swimming pool...
Writes he: ''Americans, Americans, return to the first seed you sowed, to that glorious Declaration of Independence . . . You must now help solve the social problem between proletarian and capitalist nations, and the racial problem between white and colored peoples. The West would be doomed, and you eternally shamed, if you proved incapable ... of bringing that hope to the rest of the world...
...Morale is the seed of future victory." he said. "I hope the party transforms itself into one gigantic recruiting service. Cromwell's army of Roundheads marched into battle singing hymns, and never once were they shaken, because he had drilled into them that they had a cause for which to work. Sound government is the greatest cause we could have today . . . Except for the support of some discerning Democrats it is the Republican Party that fights for responsible, sensible and progressive policy in government...
...done it under almost impossible circumstances. He took over the leadership job after the worst Republican defeat since the sunflower campaign of Kansas' Alf Landon went to seed in 1936. Dwight Eisenhower, barred from seeking a third term, looked like lame-duck soup to the lopsided Democratic majority in Congress. House and Senate Republicans were fighting among themselves, seemed incapable of forming a line of defense against the war-dancing Democrats...
...Message. In a few words, he touched the seed of the idea that is to blossom in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. "The beneficial influence of this great cultural adventure," said he, "will not be limited to our own borders. Here will occur a true interchange of the fruits of national cultures. From this will develop a growth that will spread to the corners of the earth, bringing with it the kind of human message that only individuals-not government-can transmit. Here will develop a mighty influence for peace and understanding throughout the world." Then the President...