Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...type of grass that Southerners are hailing as the ideal verdant sward was reported from Louisville last week. It grows a lush, vivid green in the hottest, dryest weather, rarely needs to be mowed (it seldom grows more than four inches tall), does equally well in sun or shade, is so tough that an automobile skid does not scar it. In the south, it has been found ideal for airfields, golf tees, parks, and as a general ground cover. For northern areas, there is a hitch: the grass does not grow very successfully in cool climates, and frost turns...
...grass is Zoysia matrella (Manila grass), an oriental variety with which U.S. horticulturists began to experiment five years ago. Park Superintendent Leo Goss of Louisville has covered four acres of Seneca Park with Zoysia, spread its fame among U.S. greenskeepers. Propagated from runners* instead of seed, Zoysia spreads quickly, crowds out even crab grass. It has already been planted in a number of Southern airfields and country clubs...
...American power came back to the Philippines today over the glass-smooth, grass-green waters of Leyte Gulf under a tropical sun coming through an ominous haze lit by yellow flashes and the blasting of guns," that message began. "It was virtually perfect weather for the landings...
...Allies out of New Guinea. These troops helped the Australians to drive the enemy back across the Owen Stanleys. Then Kenney told the Chief he could fly soldiers in greater numbers across the mountains to Buna and Gona, land them there on strips cut out of the bristling kunai grass...
...sharp. So were his departments: practical and applied psychology, chemical psychotherapy, hypnotic childbirth, advanced esoterics and metaphysics, and reflex therapy (dandy for baldness). Students of "prenatal suggestion" were advised: "When a couple decides to have children, they should go to a mountain resort where they can romp in the grass and eat green vegetables." The college claimed 4,000 alumni...