Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remote mountains, in such places as Amoura, a small village in the foothills of the Ouled Nail. The village itself was destroyed years ago by French bombers, and Amoura's 2,500 people inhabit caves. They have no cattle and live mostly on vegetables, supplemented by grass. Amoura had never seen a doctor until last month when a U.S. physician arrived from Algiers' Beni-Messous hospital, 170 miles away. One villager, who claims to be 105 years old, grumbled that "since the day I was born there has never been any hope, and I don't expect...
...insist that Margaret Smith is "as strong as the average man." At hearing that Margaret shudders slightly, smiles sweetly, and says: "I'm really a homey type." Last week she certainly seemed in a hurry to get home. At South Orange, N.J., in the finals of the Eastern Grass Court championships, she needed only 24 minutes to wallop the U.S.'s No. 1-ranked Darlene Hard...
...Happy Days takes place in the midst of an expanse of scorched grass; the stage is to reflect the "maximum of simplicity and symmetry." There are only two characters: the dumpy, 50-year-old Winnie, and her impotent, sixtyish mate Willie. But the talpine Willie has very little to say or to do; and thus the play is essentially a long monologue by Winnie. When all else fails, she's got her logorrhea to keep her warm...
...last was an obscure classical allusion to Miss Muffet who sat on one. No spontaneous mass demonstration for Tuffets occured. Summer school girls sat on the grass...
...wide-eyed Muffet asked her professor how to write a paper due next week. Professor smiled and said it didn't matter, really. Muffet retired to the grass...