Word: dryest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nine months of winter, and three months of inferno" is an old yet apt Spanish adage. Those few Americans who braved climatic considerations, and waded through the red tape to obtain a visa to a dictatorship, found themselves in the hottest (121 degrees and higher was not unusual), dryest, poorest, and most isolated of Europe's states...
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...type of grass that Southerners are hailing as the ideal verdant sward was reported from Louisville last week. It grows a lush, vivid green in the hottest, dryest weather, rarely needs to be mowed (it seldom grows more than four inches tall), does equally well in sun or shade, is so tough that an automobile skid does not scar it. In the south, it has been found ideal for airfields, golf tees, parks, and as a general ground cover. For northern areas, there is a hitch: the grass does not grow very successfully in cool climates, and frost turns...
...been, but that doesn't justify his perversity in cluttering up programs with it when there is really great modern music to be played. And John Barbirolli, who has no other axe to grind but the Enigma Variations and an occasional Delius prelude, persists in offering the dryest, most academic manuscripts he can find as samples of modern culture...