Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the cows' departure from Boston Common--when it was still about the best grazing ground in town--the residents of Boston, most of whom had cows, used to bring them so that they (the cows) might enjoy the Common's superior grass. The grass was so good that cows used to come from far away. This is the way Boston's streets were laid...
...luckier cows who lived nearer the Common didn't need to travel overland. The good grass made them so fat and valuable to their wily purtanical owners that they lived in the stalls in owners' own houses...
Among native Libyans there is only one doctor and one engineer (the Prime Minister, who holds a degree from Alexandria University). Libya's only important export is dried esparto grass (used in making paper money); its per capita income is a wretched $35 a year. El Faki helpfully installed 500 Egyptian schoolteachers, sent out and paid by the Egyptian government, supplied Egyptians for every level of officialdom. Two members of the Supreme Court were Egyptians, so was the commander of the small army. Last week El Faki could boast that 1,800 Egyptians are working in Libya today...
...April 21-midst un-Monacan simplicity-in a ceremony attended only by relatives and very close friends at Trinity Episcopal Church in Independence, where her parents were wed 36 years ago. Meanwhile, NBC's early-rising Televendor Dave (Today) Garroway, 42, decided to end a long spell of grass widowerhood (he was divorced in 1946) with TV Production Coordinator Pamela Wilde, 28. Glowed Garroway: "Now I'll have someone to wake me at 4 a.m.!" In Washington onetime Price Administrator Paul A. Porter, 51, now a capital lawyer and being jettisoned by his wife (since 1930), confirmed rumors...
From the moment Stevenson's little air fleet touched down on a grass strip at Worthington, just north of the Iowa border, his campaign went well. The weather was mostly bright, the small-town audiences attentive, generous (slipping up to $400 a meeting into collection cans labeled "The Ezra Taft Benson Retirement Fund") and unexpectedly large, e.g., Stevenson drew 2,500 in Montevideo...