Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brisk south wind was scattering tiny white clouds across the blue sky above Atsugi airfield when the first U.S. troops landed. Tall grass, dancing in the wind, cast sawtooth patterns on the ground...
...born Leslie Nakashima, who went there to look up his mother. Wrote he: "I was dumfounded at the destruction before me. The center of the city . . . was razed and there was a sweeping view to the foot of the mountains. ... I found my mother safe. She had been weeding grass in a field about two miles southeast of the city when she saw the flash . . . threw herself face down on the ground...
...clear. . . . What is there to say but that we will give our all to carry through toward the successful consummation of this holy war for the defense of our divine land. I firmly believe that in fighting to the end, even if we may be forced to exist on grass and sleep in the fields, there is life in death...
...eyed epicure (he likes sea slugs, champagne, Russian chocolates) who last year lost the Government of Sinkiang for openly opposing Russian influence. At the recent meeting of the People's Political Council, General Sheng was violently denounced as a grafter and as one who took "lives lightly as grass...
...rest of the prisoners were already seated or spread out exhausted on the grass as he staggered into the assembly point. Each arm was over another prisoner's shoulder, his head wobbled loosely and his dragging feet made erratic lines in the yellow dust. When they let him down at the edge of the circle of prisoners, he breathed in gasps and his glassy eyes in his sunken face looked nowhere...