Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason has been well known for at least a quarter of a century. You can't grow grass on a busy street...
...Williams' bat that struck Brissie's left leg and caromed toward first base. A groan swept the stands; Williams angrily kicked the first base bag, apparently blaming himself for something he couldn't be blamed for, watching the giant rookie writhing in pain on the grass behind the pitcher's mound. It was the same leg a German shell had shattered four years ago when Corporal Brissie, a bazooka man, was leading a squad in the mountains above Florence, Italy. It had taken 23 operations and 40 blood transfusions to put Brissie on his feet...
...succeed, it never quite sceedes. Adolphe Menjou has apparently profited from his recent star-chamber experience for he is convincing as a machine politician. Whether machines are as harmless as Tracy suggests is still unclear. Yet though his head is in the clouds, his toes are down among the grass roots, and no self-respectin' man or woman can failed to be moved...
...that the last grey snow has vanished from the shady spots in back of Leverett House, the grass is blushing green along Memorial Drive, and Tom Bolles's galley slaves are churning the clear blue Charles once more, it appears that Spring has finally come to Harvard...
Jacob Sechler Coxey, who 54 years ago led "Coxey's Army" of unemployed to Washington (and got arrested for failing to keep off the grass), reached 94 in Massillon, Ohio, announced: "I'm going to live to be a hundred...