Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University's decision to allow seniors to leave the Houses next year is to be commended as an emergency measure. Given the understandable pressure from the forced commuters to move in and the "greener grass" theories of those who want to move out, the University is justified in its solution...
They were part-time party workers and armchair politicians--college professors, businessmen, young lawyers, and the labor rank-and-file. They met last week in a Fresno hotel to endorse some candidates for elective office. The California Democratic Council proved that grass roots are not always green...
...Charlie Wilson's New Look lacked forward vision. He had little if any use for the basic research that makes possible the weapons of the future. Why is the grass green and the sky blue? Why do fried potatoes turn brown? What is the molecular secret of life itself? The answers could not shoot and therefore should not be bought with defense dollars. Why would anyone want to go to the moon? An outer-space satellite could not destroy a target and should therefore have a relatively low priority. In 1957, for example, Wilson's research and development...
Waco never quite forgot its prairie Voltaire. The grass had hardly begun to cover his grave when a figure stole into Oakwood Cemetery and fired a gun point-blank at Brann's bas-relief profile on the stone. Like his contemporaries, those who followed could never agree whether he was saint or devil's apostle, infidel or genius. But, as Waco was reminded last week after almost 60 years, the words outdistanced the bullets...
...long before Clift takes to the high grass again, but not to look for trees. A deranged Southern belle (played with whoops, whimpers and childbed eye-rolling by Elizabeth Taylor) thereafter convinces him that she is pregnant, and he marries her. Eva Marie looks distressed, but maintains her maiden faith. Sure enough, everything turns out all right: Fort Sumter is shot up, Elizabeth Taylor goes completely insane, Atlanta is burned again (it looked hotter in Gone With the Wind), Clift gets wounded, Lincoln is assassinated, and finally there is a fond fadeout between Clift and Eva Marie...