Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the green grass of Yankee Stadium, a tourist in Rome succumbed to an old Yankee habit: psychoanalyzing the Brooklyn Dodgers. Said Joseph Paul Di-Maggio about a possible Dodger-Yankee World Series: "It has gotten so bad with them in Brooklyn that they can't even say the word 'Yankees.' It's always 'those blankety-blank lucky Yankees'-to put it politely. I guess the only thing that can cure them is a brainwashing...
Even on Kentucky bluegrass our heifers merely rear on front legs, click hind hooves . . . What crazy grass was Irvington Roamiss Pear reared...
...great deal of his spare time is still devoted to his curbstone clinic, still without fee. What little is left, Stapp spends as a happy-go lucky gardener. His fig, tamarind, apricot and northern bamboo trees lean in splendid disarray among the devil grass. Never having fully recovered from his career as a Wear-Ever salesman, Bachelor Stapp is also an accomplished cook. Visiting Air Force brass, or important civilians such as Northrop's Chief Mechanic Jake Superata (whom Stapp credits with much of the rocket research success), have learned to test their palates on Stapp-prepared specialties...
...Hatton, Ted Williams, and Eddie Joost; they knocked off the hapless Athletics, 14-2, wound up only 3½ games out of first place. CJ In Philadelphia, green-eyed Barbara Breit, 17, defeated Mexico City's Maria Reyes, 6-2, 6-1, to win the U.S. girls' grass-court tennis championship for the second straight year, then joined Diane Wooton, to take the doubles...
...states the main theme of the book: "Your name is Shirley," he tells Marjorie, "the respectable girl, the mother of the next generation, all tricked out to appear gay and girlish and carefree, but with a terrible threatening solid dullness jutting through, like the gray rocks under the spring grass in Central Park . . . What [Shirley] wants is what a woman should want . . . big diamond engagement ring, house in a good neighborhood, furniture, children, well-made clothes, furs-but she'll never say so. Because in our time those things are supposed to be stuffy and dull...