Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Graveyard. Only at the race track do the old traditions survive. Gentlemen must still wear coats in the clubhouse; horses are still saddled and mounted graciously on the cool grass under the elms behind the peak-roofed grandstand. The annual August yearling auction is still the No. 1 event on a true horseman's social and business calendar; prices on unraced thoroughbreds run as high as $87,000. And Saratoga is still a "graveyard of favorites." It was there, in the 1930 Travers Stakes, that Jim Dandy, a 100-1 shot, galloped through the mud to beat Whichone...
...elephants wear green sneakers? A. To hide in the tall grass...
Over a bottle of sour mash with Houseboy Paco, McCanless succumbs to a vision. That ventilated cow out in the barn, Old Blue-she is actually a vast, milling herd of white-faced steers. Like a latter-day Don Quixote, McCanless lays out his inspired plan to Paco: "We grass-fatten the herd on the trail, and then we sell it at top market. And when it's all over . . . we'll buy each of us a scarlet sweetheart and honky-tonk our tails...
...craving for music seems to possess the U.S. in the summertime. From coast to coast, Americans brave torrential downpours, smoggy traffic jams, cement seats, grass stains and mosquitoes to get within the sound of music. They seek it out in bosky glens and canopied pavilions, up on mountaintops and down in gulches, in abandoned cow pastures and deserted mining towns, on a riverbank beside a barge and in the middle of a city...
Cheaper Bourbon. The secret of good innkeeping is to save money without letting the guests realize that any scrimping is going on-and Hilton is a past master at the art. Hilton has found that grass-cloth wall covering eliminates repainting and keeps looking new after years of service, now imports large quantities of it from Hong Kong for his hotels. The wall-to-wall plush carpets on the floors of Hilton hotels actually save money because they make it unnecessary to finish the floor underneath, and the use of Urethane instead of foam rubber in mattresses is cheaper...