Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the dispersal hut where his plane stood he had a patchy little grass plot with a sign on it: "Keep Off the Grass." He used to yell at anybody who stepped on his grass. When he took off he walked across a narrow path to his plane, but when he came back from a Big Do he was too excited to remember and his boys would trample all over the grass getting to his ship to talk about the flight. If Paddy had shot down a plane he would talk last, his brogue broadening with excitement and his fingers...
William S. Hart, lantern-jawed hero of the pioneer horse-operas, battled three grass and timber fires that nearly destroyed his 300-acre ranch in Newhall, Calif. Outbuildings, some 3,000 trees, and all the grass on the land were burned...
After immortalizing John Harvard, the quintet took shots of Memorial Chapel, taking due care not to spoil the Yard's business-like atmosphere by including feminine students or men lying on the grass. Later subjects were the Navy in the Yard, boxers on the Athletic Field, and the Harvard Yenching Institute...
...socialite, a grass widow, and the Iowa harnessmaker's son, a widower, got on famously. A few nights later they were dining together at a little restaurant on East 51st Street. They talked again about war work; they also began talking about themselves. They went together to see Katharine Cornell play Candida, to a party at the W. Averell Harrimans. By the time they were invited to a quiet dinner given by Lord and Lady Halifax for the departing Winston Churchill, they had decided to be married. The engagement was one of the secrets Winston Churchill -first person...
...Athonite came first to Mount Athos in the 9th Century and lived there for 50 years, battling devils and beasts in a cave high above Homer's wine-dark sea. Then came Euthemius and Joseph, who sought eternal bliss by moving about on their hands and knees eating grass. All this was centuries after Xerxes' legions invaded Greece, and, of course, centuries before Nazi Panzer divisions...