Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whereupon Salmon would draw himself up: "Sir, I don't like to be made fun of!" During the rest pauses, super-active Randolph would think up various picnic pleasures, such as constructing a nice bivouac when all we wanted was to be left alone and lie in the grass. He never fussed about the cold, hunger, thirst, sore feet or German bullets, and only raised hell when the Partisan barber wanted to give him a shave without hot water. He smoked what the rest of us did, and the Russian general and I rolled cigarets for him, pasting them...
That afternoon the black limousine rolled into the grounds of the Walter Reed Hospital, where wounded men sprawled on the grass in their red jumpers...
Little Beavers. His command, a division of destroyers, was quickly raised to a squadron (two divisions). Most of his men and officers were green as grass. "Ollie...
Died. Daniel Joseph ("Danny") Danker Jr., 41, fireball advertising man (J. Walter Thompson); of a heart attack; in Hollywood. At 24, Phillips Exeter and Harvard-educated, Danker arrived in Hollywood scared stiff, green as grass, with a cultivated Brooklyn accent and a way about him that eventually collared the biggest names in cinema for such radio shows as Lux, Kraft Music Hall, Charlie McCarthy...
...rival from an exclusive prep-school who, swims across the lake in nothing flat, owns a flashy car, and takes advantage of the opportunities with the Shirley Temple girl that MacCallister has overlooked. But the Horatio Alger wins out amid the thundering hoofs of the trotters and the green grass growing all around, all around, everyone is happy except the audience...