Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make sure that its secrets remained secret, inadvertent passers-by were also hanged forthwith. For signature, the Feme stuck a knife in the gallows tree and carved four letters: S.S.G.G., for Strick, Stein, Gras, Grun (Rope, Stone, Grass, Green). Folklore interpreted this literally as noose, headstone and grassy grave...
...father to help him buy a 260-acre place, while he rented 270 acres for himself. In 1943 young Ellison was not so much a Future Farmer as a future country gentleman. In that year, he had 220 acres of cotton, 265 of milo, 27 of Sudan grass, ten of hegari (grain sorghums), 64 hogs, four dairy cattle, two beef cattle, 350 hens. Total net income for the year...
Rope Trick. In Johannesburg, South Africa, a native named Mongola cut grass, spent a whole day plaiting it into a rope, then climbed a tree and hanged himself...
...closed grey van drove into the courtyard of Rome's Fort Bravetta. It stopped by a hillock of brown grass, browner dirt. In front of the hillock stood a nakedly bare pine chair...
Cake Crumbs from Childhood. Six of the nine short stories in The Leaning Tower are crumbs from this cake of childhood-gentle, affectionate epitaphs for a dead world, which read more like a continuous record of nostalgic memories than like separate short stories. They spring from the grass roots as clearly as their author does. Katherine Anne Porter has become one of the intelligentsia's most admired short-story writers. She has lived in most of the intelligentsia's favorite prewar haunts: Paris, Majorca, Berlin, Vienna and Mexico. But she was born in Texas and schooled in Louisiana...