Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mining engineer, finally bought a promising silver mine in Rawhide, Nev. When the vein ran out, he looked around for a job, after due consideration signed on as manager of a rundown cemetery near Los Angeles. One day in 1917, as Eaton surveyed his "depressing patches of devil grass, straggling untidy pepper trees [and] grim granite headstones," he was seized with a thrilling vision of "a great park, devoid of [the] customary signs of earthly death," where the dead might, in the biographer's prose, have "a beautiful passage to eternal life," a place, said Eaton, "where lovers...
Beyond the borders of civilization, they encountered primitive Indians in long, swishing costumes of grass (to keep away insects), others who wore only strings of polished fish scales or small stones around their necks and hips. At some stops, their presents of candy, fishhooks and pocket mirrors were rewarded by exhibitions of war dances and feats of bravery. One great problem was food and drink. They sat down to meals of diced wild turtle, and wild boar hash ("Good, too," said De Carvalho), but politely declined offerings of broiled green lizard and a drink called chicha, which native women made...
...about 'The pigeons on the grass, alas,'" said his roommate. "It gives you that Oriental-American flavor while still talking about Cambridge...
With strong support in the grass roots, with a docile and hero-worshiping press and radio, Sandhurst-educated General Ayub Khan this week celebrated the first anniversary of his "benign dictatorship." Since peacefully overthrowing the corrupt and inefficient government of Iskander Mirza-which was democratic in name only-Ayub Khan has startled his countrymen and Western observers by fulfilling nearly every promise he made...
...revenge. Smeared with war paint, Lulua warriors began by burning two Baluba villages to the ground and killing their inhabitants with spears and homemade muzzle-loading rifles. In the suburbs of Luluabourg, naked Lulua women swarmed through the streets screaming to their men to kill, kill, kill. Like a grass fire, murder and mutilation swept over an area of 40 miles until the number of deaths mounted to an estimated...