Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...malleability of young bones. A middle-aged Texan named Dennis Jerkins broke his hand, however. The hand was already in a cast. "The way I broke it the first time," said Jerkins, "was my executive privilege to bang it against my desk. I'm a grain and sod-grass hauler. The way I broke it the second time was I was trying to get out of the way of a fistfight this morning...
Gold light slants through tall trees and casts long shadows across the tufted stalks of elephant grass as we arrive at the crash site in the late afternoon. Suddenly, the dense undergrowth gives way to an unnatural clearing of dirty gray sand littered with the half-recognizable detritus of the shattered gunship: broken wheel struts, a bent propeller blade, rusted armor plating, scraps of the fuselage. Resembling patches of smudged snow, remnants of the plane's once white fiber-glass insulating material are scattered everywhere. Earlier, crews of olive-clad Laotian soldiers and Americans in T shirts and grimy Levi...
...green of a baseball diamond, not the artificial kneetearing, crazy-bounce-inspiring turf of a concrete stadium but the real grass of a real park...
...grass that's the first thing you see when you come out of the tunnels under Fenway Park, even before the rest of your senses are assaulted, overloaded with spring...
...farmlands know that. The land is a force beyond man's ken. In the 1920s Novelist Sherwood Anderson wrote of North Dakota: "Mystery whispered in the grass, was caught and blown across the American Line in clouds of dust at evening on the prairies. I am old enough to remember tales that strengthen my belief in a deep semi-religious influence that was formerly at work among our people." That mysticism lives...