Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nagasaki bomb fall at about a distance of three miles away ... I was a civilian internee at a camp in a suburb of Nagasaki, and on the morning of Aug. 9, 1945, was out on a hillside . . . cutting grass for two cows which we had to keep for our Japanese guards ... A plane swooped over my head . . I watched it as it was about to disappear over a low ridge which lay between me and the center of the city . . . Suddenly, there was a tremendous flash, far brighter than the sun . . . The next thing I knew, I was lying...
...White House, the magnolias were in full bloom and a fountain, surrounded by orange tulips, splashed beguilingly. Gardeners gave the lawn its first spring trim, and the smell of new-mown grass wafted through the open windows of Dwight Eisenhower's office. The President, like most Americans, responded to the beck of spring, tried to fit a little fun into the pressing routine of work. Last week...
...Pedal Tricycles Sir: . . . Let me join the many who will notice this sentence: "Then he and curly-headed Barbara Anne peddled their tricycles over a stretch of grass made slightly mangy lately by grandfather golfing divots [TIME, March 23]." TIME forgot to say whether the Eisenhower tykes finally sold their trikes. And what will they be pushing next week? WENDELL SMITH Santa Monica, Calif...
...Lari had banded together in an African Home Guard to keep out the Mau Mau. They were asleep in their huts as the silent Mau Mau warriors moved in for the kill. The first wave of attackers barred each hut door, the next, carrying torches, set fire to the grass roofs. Then, as the terrified villagers came stumbling out of the blaze, the executioners went to work with long sharp knives...
...young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green, The night above the dingle starry, Time let me hail and climb Golden in the heydays of his eyes, And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves Trail with daisies and barley Down the rivers of the windfall light...