Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been wide enough to hold a platoon of men three lines deep, during the formal color raisings and color lowerings held daily by the Navy men. It was not beneficial either for the lawn or for military order that the Guard of Honor should have to stand on the grass. As for the color, the walk will be black in no time, Yard Cops predict...
...beach where the four men landed was a stretch of sand half-hidden by high grass and the low rolling dunes of Long Island's south shore, near Amagansett. They worked fast, dug a hole, gingerly buried a number of wooden boxes unloaded from their boat, finally buried the collapsible rubber boat itself, covered everything with sand. Then they headed swiftly for New York...
...grass around Canterbury Cathedral on the morning of June 1 was white with the ashes of burned-out incendiary bombs, the nave was carpeted with stone dust and shattered glass, the cloisters and quadrangle were a mess of rubble. But the main structure was still virtually intact. These facts were revealed last week when the British censor belatedly admitted that Nazi dive-bombers savagely attacked the cathedral "in reprisal for Cologne...
...Pros, holding their annual tournament on the hallowed grass at Forest Hills for the first time in eleven years (with 10% of the gross receipts going to Navy relief), are staging the best tennis show of the season. Except for Defending Champion Fred Perry, who fell on his arm opening night of last winter's professional barnstorming tour and is still unable to bend his elbow without wincing, its cast includes most of this generations best shotmakers. Favorite among the field of 32 is Don Budge, now a physical education director at Miami's Embry-Riddle Aviation School...
...Washington, Tchaikovsky's turbulent Fourth Symphony surged across the water from a WPA-built barge moored near the Potomac River's edge, while 10,000 Washingtonians sat on benches, sprawled on the grass, lolled in canoes on the river. Hans Kindler's National Symphony had begun its "Sunset Symphonies." Other summer openings followed in quick succession: Manhattan's Stadium concerts, an open-air series by the Philharmonic-Symphony; the Cleveland Orchestra's roofed-over summer series, in the huge, airy Public Auditorium; Philadelphia's warm-weather nights of symphonic music in willow-fringed Robin...