Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cows & Grass. When animals, including milk cows, eat plants containing strontium 90, they reject it selectively in favor of calcium. Therefore milk contains less strontium 90 in proportion to calcium than the grass or alfalfa that the cows eat. This means that humans who get most of their calcium from milk will collect less strontium 90 than people who get their calcium direct from vegetable sources...
...Yard. Not just isolated patches, but long rolling, reeking swathes of rich, brown mud. Now there is nothing innately evil about mud, save for the sake of the few dogs and freshmen who disappear with a slow, sinking motion. But after a while the mud dries and green grass begins to grow. Now grass isn't innately evil either, except for its color. The green of the grass in the Yard clashes with the green cement in front of Sever Hall. Green cement is far more goodthan green grass as it lasts all year round and starves ugly worms...
...villagers. Suddenly the dancing stopped, a shot rang out from the village, the police answered with another, and Sadhu Raghubaranand fell to the ground, his shoulder grazed. Frightened and screaming, the villagers scattered. Some dashed into a hut and bolted the door. More shots followed. The hut's grass roof burst into flame, and as panicked villagers streamed out again, the police fired a few more rounds. When the last shot was fired, three more men and four women lay dead...
Acknowledging that he was the pleased catcher of the bride's bouquet, Chicago Grass Widower Adlai Stevenson, 56, a guest at the recent marriage of his distant cousin Helen Stevenson to New Jersey's Democratic Governor Robert B. Meyner (TIME, Jan. 28), seemed bleakly bereft of romance, though confessing that he would like to rate as eligible: "I hope the bouquet portends something, but I'm inured to disappointments...
...gang they are looked on in a different light. Sometimes they are revered because they strike at the unfriendly outsiders. And in almost no gang are they really felt to be wrong. It is much the same situation as when a Harvard student throws a candy wrapper on the grass. Technically, he knows it is wrong. But there is no heartburn, no feeling of guilt, over...