Word: grasses
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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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...