Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which God has been banished. Its inhabitants run things as they did on earth; the rich and powerful are welcomed, the poor and weak are persecuted. Mathews deftly turns everyday life into a lurid nightmare. His symbolism is brilliant in fragments, but it spreads through the novel like crab grass and tends to choke the narrative...
...sense, domination by default. Re-elected Socialist Chairman Erich Ollenhauer is a lovable but ineffectual Teddy bear of a party leader; West Berlin's good-looking Mayor Brandt is the Socialists' candidate for Chancellor, but he lacks grass-roots allegiances. Wehner's orders are what counts...
...fever's acute onset could be blamed on the weather-hot, dry air had spread tree and grass pollen over wide areas. And the big sneeze could be linked with a long-range trend; in the last four decades, hay fever incidence has increased fivefold until nearly 9,000,000 people suffer from it each year in the U.S. Hay fever, says Philadelphia Allergist Dr.Philip Gottlieb, is a disease of civilization...
...running mood. Despite his upset 800-meter victory over Belgium's Roger Moens in the 1960 Olympics, Snell was still a virtual unknown last January, when he set out to run a sub4 min. mile for the first time. Against lackluster competition, over a slow grass track in the New Zealand town of Wanganui, he blazed through the mile in 3 min. 54.4 sec.-clipping a tenth of a second from Herb Elliott's 3∧-year-old world record. At first, trackmen dismissed Snell's performance (he ran the last quarter-mile in a withering...
...from the inside, too, I'd duplicate Myself, my lamp, an apple on a plate: Uncurtaining the night, I'd let dark glass Hang all the furniture above the grass...