Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Jamaica strove to cut its imports, a rich new export was discovered almost accidentally. In 1942 a Jamaican rancher wondered why he could not grow grass on his estate near Saint Ann's Bay and sent a soil sample to a U.S. laboratory for analysis. The test proved that the soil was rich in bauxite, the source mineral for aluminum. Two U.S. aluminum companies (Kaiser and Reynolds) and one Canadian (Aluminium Ltd., known locally as Aljam) rushed in, staked out one of the world's biggest bauxite reserves, and are now shipping more than...
...some of his players, who had signed a petition asking for his release. The coach, they said, was too strict: he would not let them ride home from games with their girls; he yelled at them; he would not let them whistle in the dressing room or chew grass; he made them sit erect on the bench. Citing a list of such complaints, four promising freshmen quit the University (enrollment 30,000) to solicit offers elsewhere. After an investigation by University Vice President H. P. Everest, Cherberg was rehired .for 1956. Then, last month, he was fired...
...their battle to remove the name of "homoerotic" Poet Walt (Leaves of Grass) Whitman from the bridge linking Philadelphia with Camden, N.J. (TIME, Dec. 26), Roman Catholic groups in the Camden area rallied around a new nomination. Their candidate to succeed Whitman: another famed New Jersey versemaker, Doughboy-Poet-Family Man Joyce (Trees) Kilmer, a Roman Catholic convert, killed at 32 in World War I and, in the view of one champion, "representative of American traditions, American family life and American soldiery...
...strings of old grads. Occasionally in the past graduates have been asked to contribute to Graduate Issues. One of these contained such gems as "Sitting A Little Apprehensively on the World" by Bernard De Voto, "All, All Wasted" by Conrad Aiken, and "Fools Trespass When Angels Keep Off the Grass," by Thomas W. Slocum...
...troubled with approaching blindness, Monet ordered 50 huge (7 ft. by 18 ft.) canvases sent to his country studio at Giverny, began painting the water lilies in the pond beside his house in a last great effort to capture "something impossible in rippling waters with tall grass undulating in the sun." Looking at Monet's masterful brushwork, his lyrical blending of earth, water and sky into a single composition, French Painter Andre Masson called the completed set of canvases "The Sistine Chapel of impressionism." It is one of this superb series that now hangs in Manhattan's Museum...