Word: meadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that I wanted them to sample a new form of 'building material' . . . and I boldly 'steamed ahead.' " Beginning with a few choice blades at each meal, he gradually worked up to over five ounces of fodder a day, can now "fearlessly consume any type of meadow grass." He collects fresh mowings, washes them tenderly, sets them out in the sun to dry, then nibbles them with fruit and cheese, or tosses them up with dressing in a variety of tasty salads. Sample: grass mowings with "broken Dad's Cookie Biscuits and currants"; with equal quantities...
...coming from behind with a breathtaking final-round 68. Ten years later, at Fresh Meadow, Sarazen won the National Open again-playing the last 18 holes in 66. Last week, on the eve of the 44th U. S. Open, held on Cleveland's dog-tiring, wind-tricky Canterbury links, 38-year Oldster Sarazen, preparing to tee off in his 21st Open, made another prediction; no golfer over 35 will ever win the Open...
...third annual Goodall Round Robin golf tournament-in which each of 15 invited pros scores plus one for every hole he wins, minus one for every hole he loses to each of the other 14 with a score of plus 23; over Long Island's Fresh Meadow links. To Winner Hogan went $1,000, upping his 1940 tournament earnings to $7,538 only $239 behind Fellow Texan Jimmy Demaret, this year's leading money winner, who scored minus eleven in last week's tournament...
...squarely on the doorstep of Luxembourg. . . . The bugles were sounding this morning across the [Moselle] river and there was infantry on the road in massed columns. . . . There are cavalry maneuvers in the grassy meadow downriver a few miles from Remich. . . . The roads are jammed with Army trucks. . . . Every path that comes down from the main road into the meadow has a terminus in a wooden jetty. . . . No attempts are made to conceal the pontoon sections lying alongside...
...behind ear-busting police sirens down the Franklin Pike to Mr. Evans' home, a plantation once owned by Andrew Jackson's partner John Overton. There field-hands drew beer in tin cups, sweaty cooks turned roasts over barbecue pits, visitors trampled the fresh young daffodils in the meadow. Mr. Farley spoke, shook hands, praised Cordell Hull, Tennessee, the post office, went indoors to eat a vast spread of fried chicken, ice cream...