Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kansas last week, farmers from Abilene to Topeka watched and worried as dust storms swirled across the state, silting down the new grass and dimming the sun. Across the U.S., politicians' eyes were watching an entirely different kind of Kansas storm, a political tempest, its gusts reaching all the way to Washington. In its center was Charles Wesley (Wes) Roberts, 49, chairman of the Republican National Committee...
...basketball coach's derision, a job cutting grass, and a military mixup led to one of the most successful wrestling careers in the history of the sport at Harvard. Johnny Lee, two time team captain and one time paratrooper, in the holder of this enviable record...
...lawn under the budding magnolias. When the photographers arrived, David obligingly lifted Skunky, the family's portly Scotty, for a moment, but had to give it up. "She's too fat," he puffed. Then he and curly-headed Barbara Anne peddled their tricycles over a stretch of grass made slightly mangy lately by grandfather's golfing divots...
Thirty miles north of Amman, Jordan, some 100 acres of bright green grass grew eight inches high. Around it lay dusty desert supporting a few tough shrubs. Soldiers of the Arab Legion last week were guarding the grass day & night to keep the goats and camels of the Bedouins from eating it down to the roots. The Bedouins themselves came in droves to admire the greenery, for no such grass had grown in that desert since the time of the Prophet...
...Soon grass began to grow. Skeptical locals predicted that it would shrivel and die like the short-lived grass that sometimes springs up in the desert. But it kept on growing, and is growing still...