Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behind the Japanese lines, "was the absolute straightness, the perfect symmetry of the tree trunks, like the pillars of a dark and limitless cathedral. The ground itself was covered with a thick carpet of dead leaves and seedling trees. There was practically no earth visible, and certainly no grass or flowers. Up to a height of ten feet or so, a dense undergrowth of young trees and palms, but out of this wavy green sea of undergrowth a myriad tree trunks rose straight upward ... for 150 feet before they burgeoned into a solid canopy of green which almost entirely shut...
...playing captain and Australia's Frank Sedgman, Wimbledon and U.S. champion and generally considered the world's top amateur. The big match was rained out twice before it finally began this week. Then Sedgman, who relies heavily on his speed afoot, found the wet grass courts slippery going. He found Seixas' booming service and tantalizing drop shots even tougher to handle. Seixas won, 8-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, and became the first U.S. player to win the Victorian Championship since Don Budge...
...Cambridge Common. Since most policemen are cruising the city in their cozy cars and the others are patroling such arcas as East Cambridge and Central Square, the Common has no watchman. Police say the prowl cars scan the streets and beat-men guard business establishments. They ask: Why patrol Grass...
...balmy spring afternoon sometime in the early 30's a young woman sat on the grass at Bronx Zoo sketching a female rhinoceros. The rhino had been making "silly squeaks," something which had particularly impressed the artist, when suddenly the broad beast charged to the bars and tried to drag the young woman into the cage...
Mothers Do Not Desert. Hunter Oberjohann traveled light. He slept beneath the sky on grass mat and saddle, ate only once a day, native style. To keep off mosquitoes, he often lived in a swath of thick toweling. All the while, day & night, he followed the herds through the stinking swamps, disdaining snakes, crocs and insects in his passion for pachyderms...