Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Returning to grass after a disappointing Derformance in the National Clay Courts championship in Chicago, New York's Althea Gibson got back in form, beat Margaret Osborne du Pont 6-1, 6-4 at the Vlerion Cricket Club to win the women's Pennsylvania and Eastern States tennis championship, most important U.S. title of her career...
Only a few reconverts turned up. They sat cross-legged on the grass before pig-tailed Brahman pundits for half an hour's chanting of the Vedas, washed themselves with water from the sacred Ganges, and dropped incense on a fire of camphorwood and herbs. "You are again pure," said a swami. "You are once again Hindus...
...black Cadillac picked a path out of the traffic along Manhattan's Central Park South one afternoon last week and glided to the curb before the plush and towering Hampshire House overlooking the grass, trees and lake in lower Central Park. From the back seat edged the car's solitary passenger, a handsome, meaty man with wavy silver hair. He was dressed in a businesslike grey summer suit, red and white striped bowtie and soft black loafers. Stepping to the pavement, he turned slightly, tossed the driver of the rented limousine a "Thank you, James." Then David John...
After Tuesday sociability will be on much more of a grass roots level, but the Summer School administration will provide various opportunities for students who may have flunked the first big test to redeem themselves--or merely for people who like to dance to enjoy themselves. In contrast with past summers, which saw orchestra dances at the Union at an admission charge of about $1.00 per person, this season will feature six Friday evening dances--three phonograph-record mixers and three square dances--at the cost of only 25 cents per head. And as a sort of climactic note there...
...delegates could talk, eat and live together, the Capricorn Society took over the site of an abandoned British hotel on the lake, hundreds of miles from a major white settlement. There workers constructed a small city-Capricorntown-complete with refurbished hotel, thatched huts, marked-off lanes, a huge grass-thatched bwalo (meeting hall) and symmetrical rows of small tents...