Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because of New York's water shortage, the Brooklyn baseball club started digging a well near the first-base line at Ebbet's Field, planned to use it in irrigating the infield grass. Ernie's Enterprises, a St. Louis firm, announced that it had orders for 50,000 Eagle Beaks-hornrimmed spectacles with large false noses attached to them. U.S. citizens were also snapping up Miss Gorgeous Blond Fan Dancing Photos (smiles and dances before your eyes), Nature Boy Squirt Ash Trays, Hollywood Floating Cutie Doll Pencils, Goofy Eggs (won't stand still unless you know...
Since New Year's Day, smiling, curly-haired John Joseph Burke Jr. has been burning along like a Texas grass fire; he tied Sam Snead and two others for first in the Bing Crosby Invitation, took a third in the Los Angeles Open, won the Rio Grande Valley Open and was up in the money at Long Beach, Phoenix and Tucson. But to pros like Kansas' Dick Metz (who thinks Burke will win the National Open) all this was less impressive than the youngster's background...
Dead Quail, No. Within five minutes Brownie froze in a perfect point. He stood unflinchingly as his professional trainer, a quiet, rawboned outdoorsman named George Evans, dismounted and fired a shotgun in the air. Quail drummed up out of the grass (birds are not killed at out-of-season trials), and Brownie raced away again. After that he performed with brilliance, steadiness and wisdom. Spunky Pete disgraced himself by racing clear out of view and staying lost for 32 minutes, but Brownie went on hunting faultlessly and tirelessly hour after hour. When he was finally called in, tongue lolling, chest...
...King's Men. The sensational rise & fall of a grass-roots demagogue; (TIME...
...King's Men. The sensational rise & fall of a grass-roots demagogue; produced, directed and scripted by Robert Rossen (TIME...