Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alongside the road, their faces buried in the grass, lay the exhausted. soldiers who had dropped where they stood, for precious minutes or hours of sleep. Most of them had not had anything that could pass for sleep in four days. One stubby G.I. looked sadly at an officer and said: "Major, if they'd just put me up on top of that hill and in a foxhole, I'd fire that gun. But my legs just can't make...
...Supreme Court. In his inauguration speech, in the Salón Eliptico of the Capitol, Gómez praised U.S. action in Korea, and promised Colombians reconstruction of their country "on firm and austere bases." The ending of his speech was apt: "We men are only blades of grass in the hands of God. May His omnipotent hand save Colombia...
...hopped to Australia to plan a vital supply highway from Melbourne to Darwin. Later, after donning a colonel's uniform, he led the building of 200 airstrips and airfields and scores of military roads and bridges. The landing fields on New Guinea were stamped out of jungle & tall grass by the bare feet of Sverdrup's loinclothed "Papuan Aviation Battalion," who were paid in tobacco and trinkets. After rising to brigadier, then major general, Sverdrup came back to Missouri to work harder than ever in peacetime. His firm designed a $30 million hydroelectric plant in Missouri, and helped...
Chlorophyll, the complex substance that puts the green in grass, has been used for years to take cooking smells out of the kitchen. Occasionally it has been used to make putrefying wounds less obnoxious to patients and nurses. But until 1945 nobody thought of using it to make healthy people smell sweeter, inside & out. Nothing was farther from the mind of Dr. F. (for Franklin) Howard Westcott, a New York City internist, when he started giving chlorophyll to his patients...
...center of one broad lawn, standing like a nightmare clothes rack with triangular metal planes hung out to dry, was a quivering Mobile by U.S. Abstractionist Alexander Calder. Sprouting from the grass like a strange new species of mushroom were a pair of coldly obscure stone lumps by Englishman Henry Moore, who had laconically dubbed them Carving and Sculpture. Near by perched two glistening, seal-sleek shapes entitled Crown of Buds and Bad Fruit, by ex-Dadaist Jean Arp. "The most obscene works in the show," commented one visitor, "but nobody realizes...