Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with rifle and Sten guns. They shot every man. woman and child they could find, then turned their fire on the cattle. After that, they dynamited 42 houses, a school and a mosque. The cries of the dying could be heard amid the explosions. The villagers huddled in the grass could see Israeli soldiers slouching in the doorways of.their homes, smoking and joking, their young faces illuminated by the flames. By 3 a.m., the Israelis' work was done, and they leisurely withdrew...
...dawn, the villagers crept out of the grass and made for the smoldering ruins, looking desperately for a husband, a wife, a child. They crowded around a young girl whose body sprawled grotesquely, forefinger raised to heaven as Moslems do when they say: "There is only one God, and Mohammed is his prophet." An old man dug furiously in the debris, occasionally looked up, terror in his eyes, then laughed hysterically. Once he shouted to the sky: "Allah! I have no relations now. Why didn't you leave me one person?" Sixty-six died that night; eleven from...
Dedication day proved a dismal affair. The heavily-favored Crimson eleven sported a 9-1 record and 18 straight victories over Dartmouth when it trotted onto the Stadium grass for the first time. But the Indians made their debut as a football power by scoring a major 11-0 upset...
...world. In the same three years, Turkey's tractors increased by 900%, farm acreage 25%, mileage of all-weather roads 100%, port capacity 250%, cotton output 300%. Yet these are the people of whom the Bulgar peasant used to say, making the sign of the cross: "No grass grows where the Turk's horse treads...
...Meredith ended the farce by eloping with a portrait painter. Meredith worked on alone for a while, a crusty grass widower. He became a reader for the publishing firm of Chapman & Hall, promptly turned down one of history's biggest bestsellers, Mrs. Henry Wood's East Lynne, His acceptance of such newcomers as Thomas Hardy and George Gissing never attained the fame of his rejection slips, which turned back Samuel Butler's Erewhon ("Will not do"), and Shaw's early novels, Cashel Byron's Profession and Immaturity...