Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next morning, early, as the dew glistened on the cropped grass and the lilac bushes in front of Orient No. 2, no miners reported for the early shift. The whistle blew. "Let her blow," said a miner. "Sure, let her blow her head off." The miners were busy at other chores, mostly gardening. Said a grey-haired miner in faded overalls, spading his bean patch: "I hate to quit now. I got boys in the service and I realize what it might mean to the Government...
...Corps had, on the flanks of the road leading to Mateur, some of the toughest terrain in Tunisia. The rubble slopes of the hills were covered now with thick green grass. The enemy here was well emplaced. And yet in a single day U.S. troops pushed forward five miles and stayed forward. After the fourth day of attack, the Axis troops, apparently broken by constant shelling, pulled back their lines. U.S. troops moved within ten miles of Mateur...
...least five other vitamins have been identified chemically,* but no one knows how many more there may be, or what they do. For the vitamins not yet identified, concentrates are made from a list of weird items reminiscent of a Chinese pharmacopoeia: yeast, wheat germ, defatted milk, rice polishings, grass juice and liver extract...
...people are agreed on the main thing they want after the war: a home of their own. They want a "fair and square go" for the workingman, liberty, jobs, and freedom of movement. Looking backwards on life in the dripping jungle of Buna, on days in the yellow kunai grass and slimy swamps, on Japs crouching in jungle-covered nests, on death in the rivers, in the trees, in the air, in Jap bunkers, a soldier could say, "That's all I want out of this -a home and a wife and kids and all the rest...
Grain Greens. From fresh wheat, oats, rye, barley and other grains and grasses, Cerophyl Laboratories of Kansas City, Mo. make a dried cereal leaf product called Grass-Tips. The shoots are cut when the first joint appears on the stem, are dried, powdered and made into pellets as green as the fields from which they come. They taste a little like a blade of grass. All vitamins (except D) are present, as well as the less-known grass-juice factor. Five generations of guinea pigs have been raised on nothing but Grass-Tips pellets and water. Quaker Oats...