Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Second day lying on rocks, chewing grass and reeds, praying a great deal. Getting so weak. Hardly any hope now. Watched vainly all day for a plane. . . . Looks like I shall die here soon...
...SNAKE IN THE GRASS- James Howard Wellard-Dodd, Mead ($2). The violent death of a gentleman, traveling on an alias during an extramarital holiday in a fashionable Southern hotel, greatly excites an inquisitive sociologist with a detecting bee and a great number of odd "contacts" in quite unscholarly circles. A profusion of red herrings delays the action slightly, but the learned sleuth's highly individual methods offset minor defects...
...hills of Vermont, the grass s verdant and the air is crisp and cool. There is a college called Bennington. Every year several hundred young ladies attend this college, which is a famous place, because it is liberal and progressive, and does things which other girls' colleges never...
Winter's approach was heralded by a sudden bite in the northern wind, cranes and geese winging south over Moscow, the first frosts glittering on the Russian grass at sunup. Still ahead was at least a month's good fighting weather in the north, two months at Moscow, three months or more on the Lower Volga, where severe weather never can be counted on as an ally. In the Caucasus, except in the high mountain passes, fighting and death need never halt...
Resplendent in shining gold pants and blue jerseys, the Navy pranced onto the Stadium grass yesterday with all the spirit of a high school squad, and ran through signals in a snappy, precise manner. Earlier the Crimson, with an equal amount of zip and drive, had pranced through plays, and had a look at some of Crowley's favorites. After the signal drills, sideline observers expressed the opinion that, while the Crimson gridders were more skilled at handling the pigskin, the Cloudbusters had it all over them in individual power and ability...