Word: sodded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Astrodome management, the synthetic sod means easy upkeep. When a section wears out, a new one can easily be laid in to replace it. Stanford University is now using AstroTurf for all its outdoor freshman track-and-field events, except shotput and discus, and finds that it drains so quickly that it can be used even in the rain. The Seattle school board, saddled with its dirt-covered Memorial Stadium in which half the games have been played in mud, has voted to spend $175,000 to cover it with artificial turf...
IRELAND is celebrating the 300th anniversary of Jonathan Swift's birth and offers a $100, eight-day "literature" tour that goes to Dublin's Trinity College, Celbridge Abbey and Kilkenny City. The old sod expects a record year, including visits from Jacqueline Kennedy and 31 members of Chicago's Grandmothers' Club. Awaiting them will be everything from a $95-a-week "floatel" on the River Shannon to an army of newly popular pub balladeers and manorial dinners which will be served in medieval castles...
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! A son of the Ould Sod cuts 'through the Irish mist that envelops his boyhood village as he sets out for a metropolis in an alien land. Playwright Brian Friel tells his tale with invention and compassion...
...Sod's Sake, So!" To some extent, India's dark mood stems from the hopelessness of the country's economic situation. Reports from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh suggested that the fall harvest throughout India is falling far short of expected goals-grim warning of a repeat of last year's food crisis, when the country was saved from outright starvation only by the shipment of 10 million tons of U.S. food. The current bitterness also seems to reflect widespread dismay over the failure of political leaders to provide dramatic remedies for India's huge problems...
Stickier questions of taste arise in a gold-filtered Eden, where Adam (Michael Parks) takes shape in the sod, starts poking around Paradise eying Eve (Ulla Bergryd) and her apple while an athletic camera plays now-you-see-it, oh-you-don't with their anatomy. Such defoliated innocence fills an audience with awe, not for the miracle of mankind but for the skill of split-second cutting...