Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radioactive cobalt 60, happily headed home to Gatlinburg with the fixings. On opening day last week, as Miss Gatlinburg of 1955 posed prettily on the first tee, a blindfolded caddy, toting a borrowed Geiger counter, demonstrated that a radioactive golf ball could be found no matter how deep the grass or how dense the bushes off the fairway. For all Booster Leiper's pride, however, the atomic golf ball was still only an experiment. Even if the Atomic Energy Commission approved their manufacture, radioactive golf balls would cost $20 to $35 apiece, too expensive for any but the best...
...earth. As he crouches close to the ground, his field of vision gives him his own special view of the vast ballpark. The white foul lines stretch to the distant fences; the outfielders seem to be men without legs. Between him and the flycatchers, from the far outfield grass to the brown base paths, the rest of the team twitches nervously in place. In a sense, the game belongs to him. He is the catcher...
...roly-poly youngster. Campy sold newspapers, cut grass, shined shoes. Mornings he got up at 2:30 to help his older brother Lawrence run a milk route. By 5:30 he was back in bed; at 8 he was on his way to school. Always, young Roy's income was turned over to his mother, and always, his allowance was spent on movies or a ball game. Shibe Park (now Connie Mack Stadium) was within walk ing distance of the Campanella home, and any afternoon there was a game. Roy was there, too. For a quarter a kid could...
...rain-slicked turf of Philadelphia's Merion Cricket Club, Wimbledon Champion Tony Trabert whipped his Davis Cup Teammate Vic Seixas and took away the Pennsylvania State Grass Court championship, 6-1, 6-2, 6-3. Earlier, in the Pennsylvania and Eastern women's final, Wimbledon Champion Louise Brough beat New York State Champion Althea Gibson for the women's title...
...advance. With some half-million followers in Japan making up Japan's second largest flower arranging school,* Sofu now thinks he can afford to ignore the criticism of traditionalists who grumble that "Sofu has taken the soul out of ikebana." In reply Sofu simply quotes his own Grass Moon motto: "Always look forward to a fresh and vivid world and do not become buried in retrospection...