Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coming-of-age" birthday, the 25th, Britain's Princess Margaret helped out at a church bazaar in Scotland, slipped in the grass and twisted her ankle. But when her birthday dawned, Margaret rose early at Balmoral Castle, got piping greetings from nephew Charles and niece Anne, then with other members of the royal family drove to Sunday services at nearby Crathie Church. The crowd outside toppled part of the churchyard wall in its crush to see her. The princess looked radiant, especially when the Rev. John Lamb, from the pulpit, wished her "the fulfillment of her desires...
...combing. Last week, in a symbolic scene, Presidential Hopeful Averell Harriman and Presidential Hopeful Adlai Stevenson met at Stevenson's Libertyville (Ill.) farm, sat on white wicker chairs and gazed around at the smooth lawns. In a tone that meant he was merely being polite, Ave murmured: "Your grass is greener than mine." Adlai said nothing; he just chuckled...
...nearby Chicago most U.S. state governors, attending their annual conference and busily swapping guesses on 1956, agreed that Adlai's grass was indeed the greener-but that Ave's had considerable promise...
...19th-century landscape exhibition called "Artists in the White Mountains" that was bound to draw praise from contemporary amateurs and scorn from fashionably "modern" painters. The pictures were not, on the whole, outstanding, but they showed the early history of an American painting tradition that flourishes today at the grass-roots level. Nothing can down...
...crippling blow: 24-year-old Tony Trabert, French and Wimbledon champion, was out of action with a pulled shoulder muscle. Unless he recovers, his two erratic teammates, Vic Seixas and Hamilton Richardson, will have difficulty hanging on to the hard-won trophy. Both men were beaten in the Eastern Grass Court Championship tournament at South Orange...