Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Many diplomats feared that the test would help spur other nations with technical know-how into accelerating their efforts to join the nuclear club. As if to confirm that fear, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan warned that if India builds the bomb, "we will eat leaves and grass, even go hungry, but we will have to get one of our own. We have no alternative." At least eight other nations have the capability of producing nuclear weapons, but only three of these-Australia, Israel and Japan -have potential systems for delivering them...
...address a group of automobile dealers, one of whom lends Jackson a new Pontiac Grand Prix every year. As Jackson swings his car past the long line of Cadillacs and Mercedeses ringing the driveway at Silverado, he mutters, "The only niggers out here are the ones that cut the grass." Though he mixes easily with the wealthy white crowd, he also twits the audience: "It's nice to see all the nationalities represented here...
...Louis, a cold-blooded killer in the ring, was tied in knots by a one-and-a-half ounce golf ball sitting on the grass calmly waiting for him to hit it. Champion golfers have lost Opens because of the single click of a shutter. Ben Hogan, from the tougest parts of Texas, known as the Iceman for concentration that could shut out the world, jumped for his life while putting in one tournament. He had heard a movie camera start up while he drew his blade back and he thought it was a Lone Star rattler...
...unwieldy stylizations of grand opera with the genteel hysterics of tele vision commercials. The last story, The King of Yvetot, about a man of advancing years who is cuckolded by his young wife, has the level worldliness and sensuality of a late Renoir film like Picnic on the Grass...
...split into two sections to handle the overflow of entrants. One winner, Rube the Great, is considered a strong Derby contender, but the other, Flip Sal, is largely untested. The only horse to show solid promise thus far is Judger, winner of the Florida Derby and the Blue Grass Stakes with come-from-behind spurts down the homestretch...