Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between 1850 and 1855, five Americans published seven books which made that half-decade the most explosive in American cultural history. The men: Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman. The books: Representative Men, The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, Moby Dick, Pierre, Walden, Leaves of Grass. "You might search all the rest of American literature without being able to collect a group of books equal to these in imaginative vitality...
...think he's about out of biscuits."; Of Martin Dies (who definitely wants it): "Dies makes a fine speech but it's always the same one." "Commodore"; Hatfield's unvarying costume is a blue denim shirt, khaki pants, a three-gallon hat braided with bear grass...
...velvet-padded stool on the green grass beside the fence of the half-ruined Royal Palace in Belgrade, a Nazi officer-artist sat sketching the toppled dome of one of the Palace wings. New York Times's Correspondent Ray Brock, back on his old beat, strolled up and asked what the drawing was for. The officer told him it was for the German picture magazine Signal. Then, to Correspondent Brock's surprise, the officer suddenly became very voluble...
...which it would run. Since 17% of the U.S.'s needs for aviation gasoline is centered in those States, President Roosevelt tried to speed the line by writing a letter (for transmittal to the Georgia Legislature) to his old enemy, Governor Eugene Talmadge, who tried to start a Grass Roots revolt against him in 1938. But the railroads, two months ago, held the project up. Arguing that they had plenty of tank cars to do the work of any diverted tankers (in which the Army & Navy supported them), they persuaded the Legislature to adjourn without taking action...
...most of the 19th Century-from the early 1800's, when Dr. Redmond Dillon Barry of nearby Gallatin first imported an evergreen grass known as blue from his native Ireland, to 1882, when the great Iroquois (only U.S.-bred horse ever to win the English Derby) was retired to stud at nearby Belle Meade-Nashville was famed as "the cradle of the thoroughbred...