Word: sodded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Overhead. There, a crowd of 10,000 spilled along the hillside, stood within 100 yards of the gravesite. Television cameras and newsmen were stationed within 50 feet of the bright, artificial green sod spread around the opening. Drummers from the Marine Band marched to the top of the hill, hammered out the somber beat as the caisson drew near. The Air Force bagpipe band, moving in slow step, wailed The Mist Covered Mountain...
...will take more than a few factories to make of Ireland another Ruhr, but the changed landscape is a sight to see, as shown by the eight pages of color this week that accompany the cover story on Sean Lemass, who represents the new spirit in the ould sod...
...Rotterdammers estimated costs at $35.9 million; eventually, after the government gave approval, the piers cost $41.4 million. When the government refused permission for a runway extension at Zestienhoven Airport, the city, realizing that more room would be needed for jet traffic, built the extension anyway, covered it with sod until the project finally got approval...
When the blight struck in 1845. the eponymous Sir Robert Peel was Prime Minister, the heir of nearly 700 years of British domination, which had left more than 8,000,000 Irish living like pigs-and sometimes with them under the same sod roof. A visiting Frenchman found in Ireland "the extreme of human misery, worse than the Negro in his chains." Why this savage squalor in a fertile land? "All this wretchedness and misery.'' says Woodham-Smith. can be "traced to a single source-the system under which land had come to be occupied and owned...
Missouri's John Huston, of course, is a bit of the old sod if ever there was one. In Galway, he has a 26-room Georgian mansion, a trout stream, and a shooting bog. For some time he has been Joint Master of the Foxhounds of the Galway Blazers, for whom he gave a party one night last week that lasted until break of day, while Huston's fellow huntsmen, 500 strong, milled around under three marquees set up on the master's spacious lawn. "I like horses and deep country and the Irish pleasantries," says Huston...