Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before the workers moved in, the Stand ard Fruit Co. (which used the previous grass airstrip as a duster-plane base) and a helicopter company were each abruptly given eight hours to clear out. Stand ard Fruit's small hangar was taken over by the government - also for cash...
...Grass is Greener (Grandon; Universal), as a London play, was a champagne comedy pressed from one of Britain's choicest sour grapes: those beastly aggressive, filthy rich Americans. Such regional decoctions ordinarily do not travel well, but this one is conveyed to the U.S. public by Gary Grant, who could pour the stuff in a hair net, cross the North Atlantic in a rowboat during a polar gale, and never lose a bubble...
SHADOWS IN THE GRASS (149 pp.)-Isak Dlnesen-Random House...
...calls her latest autobiographical book a "papyrus from a pyramid," and though it is not fiction, Shadows in the Grass is almost as remote as the medieval Persia and 19th century Italy in which Author Dinesen has sometimes set her tales. In Shadows, she reminisces about the decade (1921-31) when she ran a coffee plantation in the Ngong hill country of Kenya, an Africa now dead beyond recall and yet startlingly alive in these recollections. Characteristically, her theme -the relation of master and servant-would embarrass many contemporary writers to the roots of their social consciousness, but from...
Allsopp's inspiration came when he noticed that the manatees in the Georgetown Botanic Gardens nibbled their pool so clean of weeds that they had to be fed large quantities of grass. So he put two manatees in a weed-grown irrigation canal 22 ft. wide and nearly a mile long. In 17 weeks they had it clear and kept it that way. Allsopp figured that each of the manatees consumed more than 100 lbs. of forage...