Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peggy Markham. Just to make it look like a foursome, Stacy also invited Poetess Susan Grieve, who was unpoetically cold and prim. Stacy ordered lots of drinks, and soon Slick and Peggy were giving each other appraising glances in the manner of "two cobras raising their heads from the grass." Stacy hastily whistled up a taxi for them. Then, suddenly, everything misfired; poor Stacy found himself deep in the heart of Brooklyn with speechlessly angry Peggy, and prim Susan found herself in the arms of the U.S. Navy...
Little Amerika left the Russians cold; Amerika Illustrated was hot stuff. They liked its eye-filling pictures of Arizona deserts, TVA dams, the white steeples of a Connecticut town, Radio City, the Blue-grass country, the Senate in session, Manhattan's garment district. The magazine was written and translated in the U.S., sent to Moscow for checking - and slight censorship - by the Foreign Office, returned for printing, shipped back as a finished product...
...varieties are native to Guatemala and southern Mexico -just as the peach is native to China. the English walnut to Persia, celery to the Mediterranean. Sometime around the 5th Century, primitive South American corn, which had small, globular ears and irregular kernels, was crossed with the strong, tall gamma grass which grows in Central America. Result of this crossbreeding was teosinte, an earless corn-producing plant which still grows wild in Mexico and the highlands of Guatemala. Crossed and recrossed with South American corn, teosinte produced the elongated ear and regular rows characteristic of modern corn...
...they had to retaliate somehow. They spent years, and $18,000,000, researching and manufacturing long-range gas bags, mostly of mulberry-bark paper. Some 9.000 were launched. Only 283 are known to have landed in the Eastern Pacific or North America. No military damage was done. A few grass fires were started and six people were killed-when an Oregon child tampered with an unexploded bomb...
...keep-off-the-grass variety of regimentation, she states her views from the top of the ladder and not the bottom. It is one thing to give orders and another to carry them...