Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pools, sprinkler systems, and ultra-modern cigarette lighters should conclude with a picture of this "professional Californian"--perhaps the precursor of a new civilization--sitting in his living room with a .22 rifle ready to blast into eternity the next squirrel that tries to munch from his laboriously-fostered grass lawn...
When Irving Williams discusses Washington as a "transition environment," he is not talking politics. "The hot, muggy nights bring on fungus and disease," says Williams; yet the winters are neither cold nor wet enough for northern grass. As head gardener of the White House, Williams solves the problem by planting K31 fescue on the South Lawn and a mixture of bluegrass and fescue on the North Lawn, which faces Pennsylvania...
...permanent. Even the most expertly reconstructed knee will loosen in time. And with age, arthritis is likely. The obvious answer is to avoid such injuries in the first place. Protective knee braces are available, but they dramatically restrict a player's mobility. Replacing stadium turf with artificial grass in which cleats are less likely to catch also promises help. So do shorter cleats. Some doctors insist that the knees of all youngsters who turn out for football in high school should be examined so that the weak and injury-prone can be weeded out. But the prescription of choice...
...virtually every city east of Denver (most of the Far West was spared the blackout), the telephone switchboards at NBC affiliate stations lit up like fireflies on grass. In Manhattan, a blitz of 10,000 angry callers blew a fuse in the network's switchboard. In sheer frustration, hundreds of other fans telephoned the New York City police, tying up its emergency number for more than three hours. In a further display of exquisite timing, NBC belatedly announced the results of the game in two news streamers, one of which chugged across the bottom of the screen just when...
Packwood, a three-term Oregon state representative, is characteristic of an ambitious type of Republican emerging at the grass roots. This month the G.O.P. in five states-California, New York, Delaware, Indiana and Iowa-gained control of both houses of legislatures that were formerly split. Particularly hard hit was California Democrat Jesse Unruh, who had hoped to use his post as speaker of the state's assembly as a springboard to the governorship in 1970 but now faces at least two years in the humbler and less visible job of minority leader...