Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Book of Lists, Wallechinsky, I.& A. Wallace (2) 2-Your Erroneous Zones, Dyer (1) 3-The Dragons of Eden, Sagon (3) 4-Roots, Haley (4) 5-It Didn 't Start with Watergate, Lasky (5) 6-Looking Out for #1, Ringer (7) 7-Passages, Sheehy (6) 8-The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Bombeck (8) 9-The Camera Never Blinks, Rather 10-Haywire, Hayward...
...author goes on to describe how the birds who made their nests along the coast provided guano deposits so that a suitable loam was established for wild grasses to grow. Sir Guy concludes: "Thus eventually the whole of these areas became grass-covered, from the coarse marram on the exposed dunes, ridges, and hillocks and the finer bents and fescues in the sheltered dunes, gullies, and hollows, to the meadow grasses round and about the river estuaries and the mouths of the streams and burns. Out of the spreading and intermingling of all these grasses which followed was established...
...grandstand. The clubhouse is strictly for winners. Foxboro has the best benches around, but Suffolk Downs has a nice grass infield where you can recline among the cigar butts and discarded tickets. Wherever you sit, be sure to bring binoculars. They allow you to catch the fix on the back rail, a key to enjoying an afternoon and evening of losing...
...days went by, Wimbledon's green grass courts became an elephant's graveyard for international stars such as Rod Laver, 38, who was eliminated by Dick Stockton in three sets in the first round; Ilie Nastase, 30, victim of his own bad behavior and Borg's precisely controlled passing shots; and Billie Jean King, 33, slowed by knee surgery, who fell to Chris Evert, 22, in the quarterfinals. The record-breaking and-by Wimbledon's well-bred standards-surprisingly rowdy crowds adopted as their darling a 14-year-old, pigtailed Californian named Tracy Austin. The youngest...
...Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Bombeck