Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late guitarist to the crest of his popularity. With splendid backing, and complementary arrangements by Don Sebesky and Eumir Deodato, Wes plucks another musical honor for himself. His double-octave runs and honest, single-note phrases illuminate such tunes as the rockish Wind Song, The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener, Coin' On to Detroit, and convey an especially sweet sadness in Georgia On My Mind...
When he beat Ben Hogan to win his first U.S. Open championship in 1952, Julius Boros was described by a sportswriter as a man who "played with a cool nonchalance, chomping blades of grass, making shots with a cigarette dangling from his lips." In 1963, when he won the Open for the second time by beating Arnold Palmer in a playoff, he was said to be "placid and pleasant." Last week Boros was still cool, nonchalant, placid and pleasant-and still winning. This time, the prize was his third major title, the Professional Golfers Association championship. Boros still chomped...
...nothing but waiting. Frank and his aides waited on the grass. Press cars waited across the street. The hippie-radicals waited in small groups around fiery trash cans. Rumors began to circulate about a squadron of police cars over on the other side of the park. At 2:45, Frank said that he guessed he would take the next day off from work. At 2:50, the Record-American car went home, having missed the final deadline...
...couple of police cars came into view. One rode up on the Common grass and the driver bellowed through a loudspeaker, "The curfew is in effect. All persons will leave the Boston Common immediately, or be subject to arrest...
...stay? Some people scattered. Some began to battle the police. It was impossible to tell whether this was a public protest, or a battle out of the American revolution. Kicking kids were dragged by three cops into a paddy-wagon. Cop cars chased individuals across the grass. One young boy threw an empty bottle against a paddy wagon, and immediately five or six policemen and a couple of other citizens descended on him, and dragged him into a wagon, apparently breaking a couple of his limbs in the process, or so it seemed...