Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bitter Mistakes. How did Dienbienphu fall upon such bitter days? Last November the French were confident: they parachuted into Dienbienphu and cut the Red garrison to pieces in the tall elephant grass. Commanding General Navarre then built an entrenched camp 175 miles inside enemy territory. He dared the enemy to come and get him and itched for a set-piece battle instead of Indo-China's usual, fruitless chases through the jungle. Navarre flew in light tanks and 155-mm. artillery; his officers installed their mess silver, their embroidered white tablecloths and their wine cellars, and (though...
...support them, she became a traveling saleswoman, for more than four years fought her way over muddy and rutted Nebraska country roads selling bakery supplies. In 1928, she remarried, and moved on to her husband's Bar 99 ranch in the Nebraska sandhills. She was told then that grass and trees would not grow in the sand, but her sprawling white ranch house now stands in a grove of hackberry and willow trees and on a velvet green lawn. Inside are her collections of Early American glass, beer steins, colonial furniture and needlework...
Thus, routinely, news of the mass vaccination trials to prove the value of Dr. Jonas E. Salk's polio vaccine (TIME, Mar. 29) seeped down to the grass roots. Said the school's principal, Sid Clark: "The children understand that something pretty important is being done. They understand that vaccination is a doctor with a needle, and that their parents are going to say yes or no." Clark was more worried about the parents' reactions than the children's. "There are so many rumors flying around, started by headline hunters...
Many a state now has soil-conservation laws that permit authorities to "list" or "chisel" the uncared-for land and tax its owner for the expense. All over the plains last week the fight against soil erosion was going on. But such work-and particularly the job of getting grass back on thin, bad soil-would take time. Only soaking rains could guarantee an end to the blowing plumes of dust...
Chandler still brings some of his sentences to a halt with the too-arresting simile or metaphor. An hour crawls by "like a sick cockroach." A clam-lipped Marlowe says: "What I'd tell him you could fold into a blade of grass." But Chandler's world has a rasping authenticity, from its lingo to its lingerie...