Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...isolated himself from most day-to-day routine, and from direct contact with all but a selected few (some ministers concerned only with domestic affairs may see him once a year, if that). Daily, Chiang rises before 6. At that hour, the house on the lower slopes of Grass Mountain, just north of Taipei, is quiet; outside, the ever-present armed guards stand silently among the trees. Chiang's day begins with an hour of prayer and meditation. Often Madame Chiang joins him, and they may sit silently together for the whole hour...
...winds. Sometimes it gets so bad that mud balls form on the animals' noses and eyes, and birds and animals are choked to death. I've seen hawks downed by the dusters. The lights go on at noon, and the wind whips out grain and grass and fences, and the tumbleweeds fly like they were jet-propelled...
...former Cincinnati Reds scout has watched therapist baseball team practice on the grass less diamond that is Briggs Cage this past month. The former scout is now a college baseball coach and after a few indoor sessions Norman W. Shepard is impressed with the strength of his first Crimson team...
...long periods of waiting for a clinic reservation, for registration and for treatment, but a short time for diagnosis. From the Red press, too, came horrifying stories that modern drugs made in China were often unfit for use-loaded with wrong ingredients and impurities such as broken glass, hair, grass or bits of iron...
...story of Captain Shih of the Free Chinese guerrillas and his sabotage squad of eleven men who land on the Red China mainland opposite Formosa. Working their way to a bridge marked for demolition, they stumble into a Communist ambush. The squad's survivors disperse into the tall grass. After a dangerous trek, into the mountains lying inland, Shih is picked up by the anti-Communist peasant underground and passed along to the coast. Shih's friends cannot get him a boat, but they find him a log. One chill autumn night, an offshore wind blowing...