Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First it was radishes. Not holly-hocks. Not geraniums. Nothing majestic and beautiful; not even GOP sunflowers. Just plain garden-variety radishes. But the curious public soon cleaned out the Yard's first useful food crop, and it seemed that grass would, after all, be the main product of several months' tilling of the soil...
...modern Europe, including nylon garrotes made from stolen glider towropes (deemed more efficient for quiet strangulation than piano wire) and knives almost as thin as hatpins, for penetration of an enemy head just below the ear. One brave demonstrated the razor sharpness of his machete by clipping tough field grass with lazy swings. Another, carrying steel knuckles crested with sharp spikes, gave the points a final affectionate polishing with emery cloth as he waited for the take-off for France. Though the official maximum weight for a 24-ft. chute is 280 lbs., some of the Indians in full accoutrement...
...remember Grandpa's study with its old leather chair." Where They Went. War scattered them in all directions. It picked them up out of their home towns and set them down in the middle of North Africa ("all around are dusty and rocky small hills. A little grass grows but very little") and in Camp Claiborne, La. ("This place is about 1,200 miles from home . . ."). They found themselves, usually with irritation, in exotic and often forlorn places, without the kind of food they liked, with their girls way hell-&-gone over the ocean, surrounded by people who talked...
...then we left the crowd and sat on the grass, leaning against a rock, and talked about Dana, Ind., and Muncie and things...
...study, piled high with curios-including a life-sized cardboard figure of his friend, Will Rogers, which had once stood in front of a theatre. The neighbors strolled out past the hickory tree where James Whitcomb Riley used to sit. They sat on folding chairs on the grass to hear funeral speeches. Many had been there before as neighborhood kids, invited to Mr. Ade's 430-acre place for picnics. It was 90 in the sun now. Drawled one old neighbor: "George always did have nice weather for his parties." Said another: "He wouldn't want...