Word: playground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's offer of $200,000 to the Riverside area was first made in 1964 when the City refused to sell the Corporal Burns playground to Harvard even though it was the only piece of non-Harvard owned land left adjacent to the Peabody Terrace Married Student Housing...
Since Harvard could not buy the land, Charles P. Whitlock, then assistant to the president for Civic Affairs, made the University offer of $200,000 to be used to renovate the playground so it could accommodate increased usage by both Harvard and local children...
...years old, but then you don't even know what escape mechanisms are all about. You don't even know why you want to escape. Older cats have found a way to escape confronting these realities, and by the mere fact that you grow up on the playground with them, you begin to do the things they do even though you're not their age. Like you begin to drain their wine bottles, you know, you begin to take the pills, and smoke the grass because this affords you an opportunity to get away...
Ghosts and Rats. The military's detritus is not confined to the frozen north. Camp Kilmer, near Edison, N.J., is a decaying ghost town of fire-gutted barracks and shattered glass. Unfenced, it is a tempting playground for exploring children. While squirrels and kangaroo rats nest in the bomb craters that pock 10,000 acres of California's Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, the area is off limits to human visitors because it contains unexploded bombs and rockets left there 30 years ago, when the Navy used the park as a test-firing range. Although much...
FIRST there was Disneyland, an elaborate $128.5 million, 70-acre playground that erupted 16 years ago in the Southern California flatlands outside Anaheim. Its stunning success spawned a host of imitators, including amusement extravaganzas called Six Flags in Dallas, St. Louis and Atlanta. Chicagoans were given the opportunity to celebrate Christmas year round at Santa's Village, Houstonites to take flights of fancy at the 100-ride Astroworld, and animal lovers to join Lion Country Safaris in Los Angeles and West Palm Beach...