Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Ike's mood and golf improved at Cherry Hills. Before one round, he amiably tried some practice shots for the benefit of the photographers. Several cameramen plunked down in the grass a few feet in front of the President so that he would be shooting directly over their heads and one called out: "Will I bother you here, sir?" Ike eyed the green, then the photographer, and chuckled: "No, but you might get bothered yourself...
...Dwight Eisenhower in Paris and decided Eisenhower was the kind of man for Herter's kind of Republican Party. The appointment was supposed to last five minutes, and Herter blurted: "If you think there's going to be an Eisenhower draft at the convention, coming from the grass roots, you're very much mistaken . . . You've got to let your friends know where you stand . . ." Ike did not commit himself, but he invited Herter to lunch, put him on a "Chris" basis, and spent two hours discussing politics after lunch. Herter was firm on one recommendation...
...nursery rhyme, Struwwelpeter. Thus, few Australians mourned when government anti-rabbit scientists declared biological warfare on the rabbit. They imported from South America a rabbit virus disease, myxomatosis, which kills by causing tumors, and in 1950 planted it in Australia's rabbit-infested backlands. It spread like a grass fire, killing rabbits by the million. In some parts of Australia, the rabbit population was reduced to one-tenth. The sheep-raisers had reason to rejoice: the range grew green again and the sheep grew...
...fluff. Moviegoers who have seen her only as Lola in Come Back, Little Sheba have difficulty imagining her as anything but an aging frump in a kimono. But lucky theatergoers have been persuaded, at one time or another, that she was an intense, good-looking young schoolteacher, a tippling grass widow, and a well-girdled, wisecracking career girl...
...spite of the baron-and all the efforts of imperial German officials -the natives of the New Guinea protectorate went right on speaking Pidgin, the language built up from years of dealing with white traders. By World War II, G.I.s were being taught to say: "Cut-im grass belong head belong me" ("I want a haircut"), and the 23rd Psalm was still going native in a wide variety of ways: e.g., Australia's "Big Name watchem sheepysheep. Watchum blackfella. No more belly cry fella hob . . ."; New Guinea's "Deus iwas gut long mi, im igifim mi ol samtig...