Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Student Council or the Lowell House Committee to justify itself for every vicious, erroneous letter which the "Harvard" CRIMSON finds itself obliged to publish, the extreme to which George L. Wronn '50 carries malicious untruth deserves some comment. It has rightly been said that if untruth is grass enough it will often be believed...
...late last night, police still hadn't identified the culprits. Reliable reports reaching the CRIMSON, however, indicated that the trio was stamping out a grass-roots movement to steamroll President Conant into national office...
...Excello Airlines hits the grass Our wings are made of paper and glass We can get there fast as grease But who knows whether you'll be in one piece...
...their roles as the grass-roots demagogue and his hard-bitten secretary in All the King's Men, Broderick Crawford won the Academy Award for the year's best male performance and radio's Mercedes McCambridge, playing her first screen part, took the Oscar for the best job by a supporting actress. The Academy voted the best-actress award (her second) to Olivia de Havilland for playing the jilted wallflower in The Heiress, and recognized a bald Dean Jagger's retread adjutant in Twelve O'Clock High as the best male supporting performance...
...protege of Boston's Cardinal Glennon.* Now this brilliant son of a Massachusetts streetcar conductor saw both his soul and his career endangered by his love for a beautiful Italian countess. Instead of concentrating on his papal chores, he kept thinking of himself lying on the grass beneath a flowering pear tree with Ghislana Falerni...