Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...washes, raptly watching the gushing brown waters. So what if a pickup truck or stray livestock went pinwheeling away on the flood? The wilting cotton in fields to the east-some of it, at least-would revive and make it to market after all. The sparse grama and buffalo grass that sheep and cattle had been browsing, almost a blade at a time, would, by West Texas standards, flourish. No wonder that Tom Randall, San Angelo's Cadillac dealer, tripled his sales in the days after the rain...
...stickwomen have no grass-stains to remember this one by, just fleeting memories of Springfield forwards speeding down the sidelines. Actually, the whole thing is just as well forgotten...
...season is often about as exciting as watching the artificial turf grow. Usually, division titles are sewed up by then, the winning teams are regrouping for the playoffs, and the losers are waiting till next year. Usually. This year produced some of the most hair-raising races since the grass and the hot dogs were real. In three of baseball's four divisions, the final week opened with no certain winner. And in both National League divisions, the top two contenders ended the year by facing each other in a decisive, three-game series-a miracle of serendipitous scheduling...
Death, of course, is life's largest irony. Mortality tolled through Leonard's best-known play, "Da "; in Summer it rustles through the sunlit grass on a verdant hilltop near Dublin. The year is 1968, and three middle-aged couples rendezvous for a picnic. Food, wine, gossip and nostalgic reminiscences mask tiny tremors of apprehension and isolation...
...rain hoods, and gray trousers--lines up for formation and review. It looks somber and depressing, one first class cadet (senior) says, but look on the bright side. Things get even worse during January and February (they call it the "period of gloom" at the Point) and everything--the grass, the water, the faces of 4000-plus cadets--turns gray...