Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reduce the danger of ambushes, the Rhodesians burn the tinder-dry brush, but heavy rains have fallen lately, and the foliage is defying their efforts. Between burnt-out patches, we caught occasional glimpses of soldiers in full battle gear breasting through deep elephant grass, rifles at the ready. Small contingents behind sandbagged revetments guarded scores of bridges over rivers now swelling with muddy water. Scanning the road ahead, the lead truck's driver strained to see road patches that might be innocent potholes or pressure mines embedded in the highway. So far, no mines have turned...
...ecology minded is offered by Spectrum Marketing Co. of London, Ontario. It is made of plastic and disintegrates within 90 days after being exposed to the elements. Spectrum says the plastic even contains a fertilizer that is released as the tee dissolves. An advanced model contains grass seed to help restore tee areas. --The Wall Street Journal...
...tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grown and the squirrel's heart beat and we should die of that which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity...
...Passages, Sheeny (1) 2Roots, Haley (2) 3-The Right and the Power, Jaworski (4) 4-Your Erroneous Zones, Dyer (3) 5-Adolf Hitler, To/and (5) 6-The Grass ,ls Always Greener Over the Septic Tank, Bombeclc (6) 7-Blind Ambition, Dean 8 - Blood and Money, Thompson (7) 9-The Final Days, Woodward & Bernstein (9) 10-Fire and Ice, Tobias...
...Eating Grass. Stallone is doing all he can for the new machismo. He has a will that seems more than a match for Hollywood. Producer Irwin Winkler (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?) says, "I still can't believe I did it. I mortgaged my house to put up the $50,000 completion bond for Rocky." Winkler and Coproducer Robert Chartoff were stunned when Stallone insisted on playing the title role himself-and got his way, although he had $104 in the bank at the time. He remembers telling his wife Sasha: "If you don't mind...