Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says "most Americans" don't swallow the idea of U.S. "combat support" in Viet Nam? Has any major pollster tapped grass-roots opinion lately...
...rivaled European chateaux in size if not in taste. As more nouveaux riches arrived, Bailey's Beach became the playground for the new millionaires, private docks gave shelter to large yachts during the summer, and ladies sipped champagne under parasols while watching their white-flanneled husbands play tennis on grass courts...
...There were the Mellons, the Thaws and the Dilworths from Pittsburgh, the Du Fonts from Delaware, the Morgans and the Murrays from New York. Aside from such "cottages" as the $700,000 mansion that Henry Ford II built, residents support five separate clubs, including the Meadows, which boasts 30 grass tennis courts. Some of the houses and some of the courts have gone to seed, but Southampton still sets the most grueling social pace in the nation. On a good night, as many as seven cocktail parties run simultaneously, and $2,000 buffets for 100 people, usually catered...
...from her scalp, she shut her eyes and sank slowly to the ground. My God, thought Nagle, I've killed her. "Don't let it get you," said Player. "It happens to all of us." Play on, ordered an official. Nagle swallowed hard, swung-and belted a grass cutter that caromed off another woman's ankle. Final score: Player 71, Nagle...
Cunning as well as courageous, the stallions kept plenty of grass between manada and man, but during the 1850s the mustangers multiplied, and the odds in favor of the animals were disastrously reduced, Some were roped, some stampeded into pens, some "walked down" by patient riders who followed the herd for a week or two and imperceptibly and gradually assumed control of its movements...