Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left sticky traces of jam on the piano. Then he and Librettist Slater moved to Snape in Suffolk, to a windmill which Britten had remodeled as a house. There they plunged into Peter Grimes. Slater would work up in a bedroom, and shout down to Benjy, lolling on the grass, "How do you like this line?" They took long walks over the bleak Suffolk downs, saying nothing to each other, each busy with his own ideas. Britten gets his themes in bed, on a bus or train, anywhere, believes strongly in letting them sort themselves out while he sleeps. "Usually...
...write, the winter owl is hooting; the grass is numb and cold. No. The light and warmth must come from within now, more than ever before. . . . There are but few who have saved their matches. And they are poets, painters, writers, not men of science...
...Miamians doubted that the great spree was over. That did not mean that grass would grow in the streets in front of the Roney Plaza. As one horseplayer put it: "From now on it'll be lox and bagel* but without the cream cheese...
...when Bob Crosby's band began playing a piece called the Yancey Special, no one knew who Yancey was. But the piece caught on, and the disc jockeys and record companies began hunting for Jimmy. They found him at the White Sox ballpark, cutting grass. He said he didn't even own a piano. Jimmy made a few records and had a brief burst of popularity, then had a stroke. His left hand stiffened up, and for a while he couldn't play...
...failing to check his misinformation about the Rose Bowl's naturally green rye grass, TIME'S Los Angeles correspondent now has an unnaturally red face...