Word: grass
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although a commonwealth under American protection, the Philippines afford an example. The remotest grass shack districts in the islands are often frequented by sailors. These men in blue and white are helping to win the confidence and mutual respect of the natives. They are up to par with the best of the Ambassadors when it comes to spreading American good will abroad...
...years between the two armistices France made a national shrine of that spot in the Forest of Compiègne. Trees were felled, the clearing carpeted with soft grass. A monument was erected-a sword thrust into a limp German eagle-and on the base of the monument was chiseled this inscription: To the Heroic Soldiers of France, Defenders of the Country and of Right, Glorious Liberators of Alsace-Lorraine. At the spot where the car had stood a great granite block bore the words: Here on the Eleventh of November Succumbed the Criminal Pride of the German Empire, Vanquished...
...late Senator from Kentucky, was a man who wouldn't harm a flea. A peace-loving, Sunday-school-going ex-judge, he had shaggy grey locks and a nose of such W. C. Fieldsian proportions that he was once described as "looking like a rhinoceros crashing through a grass...
...Army architects who planned the Air Corps's Randolph Field near San Antonio made one mistake. They forgot about sidewalks, and people there have to walk in the paved streets or on the brown, famished grass. Otherwise the post is one of the Army's finest. On the east and west sides are two wide, grassed flying fields. Between, in precisely patterned octagons and circles, are separate rows of shops, barracks, officers' and noncoms' homes, all converging on the white, stone-towered administration building Where the post commandant rules...
There were about 5,000 birds. They protested loudly when the men came near, refused to get off their nests until the men were close enough to snap pictures (see cut). The nests, about a foot across, were of grass lined with soiled white down. There were four creamy white eggs in the average clutch. The men took two goose specimens and five eggs, started back down the river. Last week the specimens and eggs were safe at the Canadian National Museum in Ottawa, and it was announced to the world that the breeding ground of Ross's goose...