Word: walls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barbed-wire fence, with Marine sentries endlessly pacing the perimeter-at night just inside a ring of blazing spotlights. Gravel walks wind amid wild cherry and red oak trees to converge on the President's rustic-timber one-story cottage, named "Aspen" by Mamie Eisenhower. Leaning against one wall stood Dwight Eisenhower's red and blue golf bag, while not far away is a putting green with five pitching tees ranging from...
Behind the Wall. Chris Herter, who had gone ahead from Washington, met the President, Macmillan and Lloyd in Aspen Cottage's paneled living room. There, in the large room with its sofas, easy chairs, bridge tables, and huge fireplace bearing the presidential seal, most of the Eisenhower-Macmillan talks took place. They began after a 45-minute Eisenhower nap and lunch (tomato soup, cheese souffle, cottage pudding with lemon sauce). The first day, Herter, Lloyd, U.S. Ambassador to London John Hay Whitney and British Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia also participated in some of the discussions. Ike called for Deputy...
Baseball practice had run to more than three hours yesterday afternoon, when Norman Shepard finally called a halt and headed for a seat against the far wall of Briggs Cage. As his players trouped slowly outside, Shepard began talking about the team he is trying to put together for the coming spring...
...potentially more successful program. "As neighbors, this is what we ought to do--not wait until there is a crisis, and then decide what we would do about it. When I think of how fat, of how comfortable we are, I think I see the writing on the wall...
...novels, notably The Time Is Noon (1948), a panoramic view of American life that included some acid sidelights on the publishing business. In one scene, an ambitious junior editor is building up an awful novel to please a top publisher ("who wore knickers to the office and had only Wall Street friends"). The big man rewards him with: "I think you'll like publishing . . . There's plenty in front of you, young man. [But] it isn't all circus tricks...