Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert Phelps of Bethlehem Steel emphasized the role of the industrial relations man as a mediator between management and labor. He must deal with officials and "grass roots," and must understand the "subtle motivations of union representatives...
...siege of heavy rain and a scent-bedeviling east wind, many dogs got confused, but one liver-and-white pointer bitch felt right at home on Maytag's acres. Bouncing eagerly through the sedge grass. Just Rite Roz flushed her first covey 15 minutes after her handler, Druggist Bill Swift of Selma, Ala., let her go. Swift's whistled commands moved Roz through the course as though she were on a long leash-a series of short blasts sent her roaming, a long blast brought her back. Coolly, she ignored the occasional roar of a shotgun fired...
...King. Many of his listeners in multilingual India, though they cheered and clapped mightily, could understand scarcely a word that he said in English or Hindi. Fastidiously avoiding all the local grass-roots issues for which he has no taste-the caste problem, anti-cow slaughter, communalism, astrology-Nehru explained the Kashmir issue and India's foreign policy to audience after audience of backwoods illiterates. "Long live Nehru," shouted the crowds, pleased and happy to have had a glimpse of the great man. To many of them, India, the Congress Party and Nehru were one and the same thing...
Guided by the air photos to a tomb area near Cerveteri (the ancient Etruscan Caere), Lerici trotted out another scientific trick. From the ground the tombs are invisible, but he found that sensitive photometers could detect the slight differences of color between grass growing over a tomb and ordinary grass...
...That man who's cuttin' grass across the road...