Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said served only the interests of Southern Rhodesia's white settlers. Last year Nyerere became the first East African to espouse publicly the inescapable logic of federation and to differentiate between "bad" federation imposed from above (as in Central Africa) and "good" federation that "grows upward from the grass roots...
...midnight, though the weather was so cold that the imperial moat in the heart of Tokyo was glazed over with ice. Next morning, as the gates swung open, a crowd of 8,000 Japanese in holiday dress shuffled across the famed double bridge and onto the expanse of grass where the great wooden palace had stood until leveled by American bombs. Shyly smiling, stooped but trim, Emperor Hirohito stepped to the front of a white platform and waved a languid New Year's blessing to the crowd...
...second enclosure, the Extensive Pen, Lockley put a single buck and two does. With a whole acre of grass and a buck to share between them, the does responded reproductively as rabbits are expected to do. Between December and the following July, they produced 36 young. But even this two-Eve Eden was not happy. "The isolated buck in the Extensive Pen," says Lockley, "although enjoying two wives without competition, nevertheless spent most of his time patrolling the fence between the two pens, endeavoring to break into the Intensive Pen, where he could see other males and females. These males...
...Grass Is Greener. A champagne comedy pressed from one of Britain's choicest sour grapes-those beastly rich Americans-with Gary Grant brilliantly playing an earl who tries to save his wife from a fate worse than death, i.e., Robert Mitchum...
Shadows in the Grass, by Isak Dinesen. This aristocratic Danish author of superior Gothic romances has fashioned a nonfictional still life, elegiac in mood, diamantine in craft, of her past as a coffee planter in Kenya...