Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horribly thirsty in the morning. Eight feet away, just beyond a little willow tree, a three-foot creek purled and gurgled. Desperately he began rolling his head, eating tufts of grass which grew within reach. That afternoon he heard a hammer banging near by; he knew someone was mending the fence his car had shattered. He screamed, hammered on the fender with his free hand. There was no answer...
...Pigeons," snarled George as two birds lit ten feet in front of him. "Them damn pigeons will have this platform all messed up in no time." He spat, forcefully, on the new grass...
...Kwangju, Hodge, with his old cavalryman's gait, rolled up to a bearded elder, beamed: "You know me? Hodgey!" "Hodgey!" cried the elder, and Koreans took it up. He waved from the back platform of his train (formerly Hirohito's) to crowds who turned out from sleepy grass-thatched villages. When a children's brass band serenaded him, he was delighted, and told the 63rd Infantry to get the kids better clothes. At one station, when a baby cried, the General went over and pinched its cheek. "I think it was sick," said Hodgey...
...cigarettes, so he lit one and started to Widener, thinking vaguely of a book he'd been trying to get for three weeks; it was still on reserve for a fall term course, last time he'd tried. The sun was hot through his wool jacket, and the new grass was coming softly through the raked brown earth. The steps of Widener were wide and white, he thought, starting up--in all the years, though, he hadn't learned a satisfactory way to climb them. Too low, and yet to much set-back for two-at-a-time...
...knew as well as anyone that a slump is mostly mental. Every inning, when the Cards came off the field, he carefully put his first baseman's glove face down in the grass. Then he always touched the bag with his left foot. At breakfast, he made sure never to order the same thing he ate the morning before...