Word: grassed
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...tall grass on the slope of Fort Hill...
...hoppuh-grass: grasshopper; might be found on Watt House lawn...
...Louis Cardinals of 1967 because these blessed people, athletes, don't allow for bullshit: the participant is viewed by a full stadium and the people in their living rooms, he either comes through with men on base or he doesn't, either makes the necessary magnificent backhand on grass or doesn't Language is too often used as a smokescreen for banality or as with pieces like Tom Wolfe's, excuses for grand meanness and superiority. Action seems more honest and the supreme action in these days of American political quiescence--the action which we can all see and understand...
...usually 2-to 3-feet high. For daytime outings, this concoction is decorated with ribbons, feathers, flowers, birds' nests or vegetables. After entertaining eleven young women recently, a London hostess boasted that "they had, amongst them, on their heads, an acre and a half of shrubbery, besides slopes, grass plots, tulip beds...
...means the only field in which American women have made significant contributions. Agriculture, for example, has profited immensely by women's innovations. Elinor Laurens of Ansonborough, South Carolina, became the first colonist to cultivate a wide variety of exotic fruits and vegetables-including olives, capers, limes, ginger, guinea grass and Alpine strawberries. The most exceptional female planter, however, is Mrs. Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 53, also of South Carolina. When only a girl, managing her absent father's large plantation with what one friend called "a fertile brain for scheming," Eliza decided to start cultivating West Indian indigo...