Word: sodded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thin Hog. First things first: got to find water. Pa is in the habit of drilling wells with a shotgun. First he walks the lawn with a forked stick. The stick goes crazy because the lawn has a buried sprinkler grid. Pa fires a load into the sod just as the gardener turns on the system. "I ain't never missed yet," crows Pa. Granny peers into the deep freeze and complains that all the vittles is froze. "People ought to know better'n to store food up against a north wall," says...
...disturbance twelve years ago followed a 1949 season-one of Harvard's worst-that was capped with frustration when fans in New Haven found the Yale Bowl's steel goalposts impossible to tear down, and had to content themselves with throwing sod around on the field...
...potluck for politics held good when the Senate rejected a Republican attempt, 62-30, to return the nomination over some alleged finagling in the 1946 purchase of a Government-surplus shipyard by Entrepreneur Louis Wolfson. But a regular Irish stew may await McCloskey on the Quid Sod. Demonstrating his Gaelic at a Washington dinner, he bellowed: "Fag a bealach!" Rudely reverberating in Tara's halls, it loosely means...
Roses & Red Man. Around the U.S.. nearly 40 million amateur gardeners spend an estimated $4 billion annually on plants, seeds, sod, fertilizer, bug sprays, sprinklers, tools and gadgetry. The biggest men in a big business are Jackson & Perkins, rose growers, and W. Atlee Burpee Co.. seedsmen. Jackson & Perkins expects to sell 11 million rosebushes this year from its beds in California, Arizona and New York. is touting a giant hybrid tea rose. South Seas. Unlike many of the new show-bred roses. South Seas smells good. Said Charles Perkins: "We breed fragrance into our roses...
...From Sod to Sky. Even in Ireland, times and tactics change. After 700 years of battling the English, Irishmen are no longer obsessed with "the Six Green Fields," as the predominantly Protestant counties are still called in Southern Ireland. Eire's government, which has long espoused a diplomatic solution for partition, has outlawed the I.R.A. and even forbids Ireland's press to carry its name. Since 1956 the Roman Catholic Church has treated I.R.A. membership as a mortal sin. The cause has been hurt by a decline in the "tolerant sympathy" of Irish-Americans, whose dollars largely financed...