Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mentioned attracting male Eider Ducks to shore. "Only the females stay on the island," he said. "We could bring the males in by hiding in the grass and waving a white handkerchief...
Coming in stubby and fast, the baseman Gathers a grounder in fat green grass, Picks it stinging and clipped as wit Into the leather...
...stand alone and then to walk and, finally, to use his arms and hands and even to put food in his mouth. Mounting a short flight of steps was as exhausting as climbing the Matterhorn. Mentally, he subscribed to a new set of values in which the blades of grass and daisies in a pasture had more intrinsic worth than the expensive cattle that fed on them, and nature's annual resurrection in spring seemed proof of the presence of God and the promise of heaven. For other survivors of heart attack Stuart has some cautionary words. Much more...
...recalled it, Capote flew up from Hollywood to read a selection ("realistic") from his works. The club was perfectly still in its awe as Capote began, "Grass." The poet waited several minutes, then said, "Green grass." The audience was thrilled. Capote caught their fever, "Green grass growing." Rapport was complete, reader and audience were exhausted with the beauty and strength of the poem, but Capote gathered himself for a final burst, "Blades of green grass growing in a meadow...
While SEC investigated in Washington, Great Sweet Grass was still being sold on Toronto's Stock Exchange last week, slipped to a new low of 80? per share, down from its high for the year of $5.85. SEC, which has yet to hear the defense of company officers, estimates that it will be at least six weeks before any decision is reached on whether Sweet Grass and Kroy Oils should be permanently barred from trading on U.S. exchanges. But on the basis of the first week's testimony, said Phillip A. Loomis, head of SEC's Trading...