Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago last week Hitler went to war against Poland. Four years ago Douglas MacArthur, with a cigarette holder in his mouth, stepped down from an airplane toward the tall grass waving in the south wind at Atsugi airfield, Japan. That was a time of hope...
Puffing on his pipe, Tennistar Ted Schroeder turned a lazy eye on the grim and determined young men swatting tennis balls at each other on Forest Hills' geometrical array of grass courts. "Look at those guys," he said, nodding at his fellow competitors in the National Singles. "In another day they'll be so choked up with tension they won't be able to breathe. No more of that for me. There's no pressure on me, none...
...first, in Hollywood's golden sky, it looked like a cloud no bigger than a publicity man's handout. But by last week it was a fat thunderhead of pressagentry that threatened to soak the U.S. right down to its grass roots. Paramount called it a "motion picture merchandising method...which sets a completely new standard in harnessing opinion-influencing power to film promotion...
...summer Sula Valley cattlemen had burned extra candles to the Virgin, and had spoken bluntly to their patron saint. Such measures had once been credited with bringing 100 inches of rain a year, but since January only five inches had fallen. Shoulder-high grass turned brown, and the scrawny, tick-infested cattle fell dead of starvation...
...only more-or-less average Americans in Mary McCarthy's satirical fantasy about a bunch of highbrows who decide that it is time for people like themselves to hit it for the grass roots. This is not the first time that sprightly Author McCarthy, onetime wife of Critic Edmund Wilson and former drama critic of the fiercely intellectual Partisan Review, has peppered the left wing with birdshot. In The Company She Keeps (TIME, June 1, 1942), she made a novel of sorts out of a series of lively, only-too-lifelike portraits of Manhattan intellectuals. Her new book...