Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before the war ended, Edsel died and a spirit died in the old man. He was 80. One day, trotting in his usual fashion from his car to the Administration Building, he tripped and fell face down on the grass. Thereafter he walked. Edsel's son, Henry II, came home from the Navy to run the empire. An attack of acute indigestion almost finished the old man. He puttered around his Georgia plantation and Greenfield Village and the museum...
...Kuching. The women worked at forced field labor on a daily diet of one cup of rice gruel, five tablespoons of cooked rice, a few greens, tea, a little sugar. Soldier prisoners bargained with their guards for skinned cats and rats; "all of us were eating weeds and grass, and plenty of us would have liked to eat each other." For complaining of attempted rape, Mrs. Keith was beaten so badly that two ribs broke. Yet she was the favorite of Camp Commander Colonel Suga, who had read and liked her Borneo book. When the first Allied planes came over...
Except for his morning walks, Harry Truman is no exercise-lover. The White House horseshoe court has had so little use that grass now grows around the stakes. But, under orders from Graham, the President swims in the White House pool, has an occasional bout with the exercise board -a slanted contraption into which the President obediently straps his feet for toe-touching exercise...
...years with a dog, a cat and a parrot. His staple diet was bread, fruit, cheese and fish, his recreations walking and sailing, his routine "of an even, grey-paper character." "He [lives]," complained one of his friends, "in a state of disgraceful indifference to everything, except grass and fresh air. . . . Half the self-sacrifice . . . the moral resolution, which he exercises . . . would amply furnish forth a martyr or a missionary. His tranquillity is like a pirated copy of the peace...
From the high grass in left field, Henry Wallace demanded: -"How can we wage a war of nerves against Russia and expect her to take in good faith our proposals to the United Nations on atomic energy?" Considering Gromyko's recent denunciation of U.S. proposals, the question scarcely seemed relevant...