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Word: grasses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Europe to look into the foreign-aid program. They still have to get out a bill on the program. A number of McMahon's colleagues indicated a singular lack of interest. This is unfortunate, since McMahon's dragon will just be left out in the tall grass, there to flourish on fiction, undisturbed by fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The China Lobby | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

Humbler and more complete than the city ruins is the destruction of the grass-roofed villages. They have vanished-more than 12,000 of them-into heaps of bluish-grey ashes. Bleak stone walls still stand in front of them, and mulberry and acacia bushes, covered with heavy dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALLIES: The Forgotten People | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

...many battles were fought in the North, but a year of U.N. air bombardment and the exactions of the hard-pressed Communist armies have ravaged the land. The refugees who still stream southward from the "People's Republic" tell of North Korean farmers eating rice seedlings, grass and bark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALLIES: The Forgotten People | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

...Unlike some temperamental dowsers who use only hazel sticks, Henry says he can work with any kind of forked stick, with grass, wire, or even old corset stays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Why Dowsing Works | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

...Eric Sturgess of South Africa, (see above), the London grass court championship, over Australia's Frank Sedgman, 6-4, 5-7, 6-2; the U.S.'s Shirley Fry, the women's title, over U.S. Indoor Champion Nancy Chaffee, 6-3, 8-6; at London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

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