Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After losing the second, minus-17, when Reckitt himself shot a perfect game, Defender Hicks played the rubber game with a grim seriousness usually frowned on in the garden variety of croquet. Kneeling, crouching, lining up every stray blade of grass for possible deflections, he got his second perfect game of the day. The spectators were sitting on the edge of their campstools when Reckitt made a strong finishing bid, but only a few shots from the final peg, he missed a difficult carom and the deciding game went to Hicks, plus-five...
Ashore, the waist-high grass smelled like heather, one of the men later remem bered. Commander Porter stationed two marines on the beach near their boat. After clambering up a small hill, sometimes slipping and sometimes falling with their heavy packs of explosive on their backs, the men discovered they were above the tunnel. Carefully they worked down to one entrance. It was a single track tunnel, blasted out of solid rock, about a quarter of a mile long, curving slightly. Using shovels they had brought with them, they dug into the railroad bed. When their shovels rang too loudly...
Before an awesome bonfire in the South Dakota buffalo-grass country, Ben American Horse, Head Chief of the Sioux, presented Cinemactor Van (Act of Violence) Heflin with a feathered warbonnet and the title of Looking Horse, formally adopted him into the tribe...
...theory, 2,4-D is supposed to kill only broad-leaved plants, not grasses, but Department of Agriculture men at Houma, La. found that when the potent chemical was applied directly to the soil surface, it prevented the sprouting of nearly all Johnson grass seedlings...
There might have been more rejoicing if the experts had not remembered the sad case of DDT, whose use has developed in many places new breeds of resistant insects. Forewarned by this disturbing experience, they gathered seed from some of the hardy Johnson grass survivors and tried the effect of 2,4-D on the second generation. It was just as they feared. Twice as many grass seedlings poked through the soil and twice as many grew to full, pestiferous maturity...