Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back, what? An aged dory, weathering silver among the four thousand blades of brown grass, each painted separately in egg tempera? In fact, no: a dark, secretive-looking Stutz Blackhawk, $38,500 worth of Republican Mafia dream-hearse with a Cadillac engine and custom-fitted luggage, polished like an immense eggplant. Frank Sinatra has one, Elvis Presley owns two; but this model, an engraved plate on the dashboard attests, was fabricated in Turin for Andrew Wyeth. "People expect me to get around in an oxcart," says the painter. "But this thing's pretty useful. I can drive it into...
Most of the newcomers who flocked to settle in the state believed that if a desert town was a good place to live, an oasis was even better. So they planted and watered thick lawns of Bermuda grass, neat privet hedges and thousands of shade trees, notably the mulberry. As a result, Arizona's cities now seem almost as lush and lovely as any East Coast suburb...
Councillor Saundra Graham ran on the CCA platform in her first campaign two years ago. She is now helping establish the Grass Roots Organization (GRO), which seems to be to the CCA's left...
...Hugh Stubbins and Associates, was designed to have minimum architectural impact on the Yard. It is in the open field which had served as passageway between the Widener-Memorial Church quadrangle and the Union, and will appear to terrestials as a nine-foot high plateau, its roof covered by grass, shrubs, and a walkway...
...Then in quick and dispiriting succession, she lost to Australia's Evonne Goolagong in the finals of the Italian Open, to Britain's Virginia Wade in the semifinals at Nottingham and to the U.S.'s Julie Heldman in the quarter-finals of the London Grass Court Championships...