Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lest newsmen conclude that he had gone too far back to Cynodon roots, Press Secretary Bill Moyers assured an interviewer that even when Johnson is fingering a field of grass he has a hand on the nation's pulse. Averred Moyers: "He has a great natural gift for knowing, feeling and sensing the mood of the American people...
...point, the President, looking tanned and cheerful, decided to go all the way back to the grass roots. Braking the car, he leaped out, plucked handfuls of Bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylori) from a field and nuzzled the blades as if they were orchids. "Look at that," the President cried jubilantly to reporters. "Isn't that the thickest grass you've ever seen?" Of course. Lyndon planted...
...second quarter, Hugh Polk led Harvard's precision forward line in setting up high scorer Charlie Njoku. Njoku sped three grass-cutters by the Princeton goalie, but twice an alert fullback was there to save the score and once Blodget couldn't connect with the open goal...
...grass-roots itch to get in the saddle means that the hunt is more popular than ever. Some 35 new hunt clubs have sprouted in the U.S. over the last ten years, and children whose parents never heard the cry tallyho! are now riding to hounds...
...magnitude of the tragedy will be painfully apparent to the reader of this collection of stories. Author Porter has superb natural gifts. She has irony, she has imagery, she has language. "Her style," wrote Glenway Wescott, "is perfection. It just covers its subject matter as if it were green grass growing on a lawn." Above all, she can think-and therein lies her principal problem. She sees her characters less as people who must live than as problems to be solved. There is too little warmth and softness in her art. But hardness endures, and six or eight...