Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state to a depth of 30 inches, man uses only a small part of this flood. Such worthless plant life as mesquite and catclaw absorbs 35% of the rainfall, and another 40% is lost to evaporation. Of the total precipitation, Texans are left with little-about 3% for pasture grass, timber, crops, etc.. another 3% that seeps to underground reservoirs...
...just hold her own with an Obolensky, but would feel that she had nothing really adequate to say to an Astor or really adequate to wear for a Beaton. She is more likely to turn up in a creation of three seasons ago, with a not-too-notice able grass stain on the skirt. The Dinner Party, written in diary form, records the daily round of a family just moved from the city while husband Charles writes a book. The diarist-heroine achieves an art less air and a malicious ear for the over tones that lurk in unguarded speech...
...last week President Eisenhower stepped into a small, twin-engined, blue-and-white airplane at National Airport and took off. Thirty-two minutes later, the trim little craft sat down on the 2,200-ft. grass runway at Gettysburg, Pa. After a pleasant tour of his farm, the President flew home in just 22 minutes...
...south China, Canton's Nam Fong daily reported famine in 50 out of 98 counties in Kwangtung, 20 out of 74 in neighboring Kwangsi, where some of the people were down to eating tree bark, grass and domestic pets. In Canton, 4,000 peasants were arrested for petty thefts like grabbing grocery parcels from pedestrians; the city's milk powder for babies was considered so poor and unusable that human milk was getting onto the market...
...YOUNG LOVERS, by Julian Halevy (313 pp.; Simon & Schuster; $3.50), plants the seed of love on the sidewalks of Manhattan and watches it sprout amid the chewing-gum wrappers like a blade of grass between slabs of city concrete. Eddie Slocum and Pamela Oldenburg are waiflike 20-year-olds who meet in the subway. Eddie is a college student who shares a Greenwich Village walk-up with a couple of buddies and goes through a local education factory as mechanically as if he were an IBM card being punched for semester credits. Nicknamed "The Groper," Eddie has a case...