Word: sodding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time the cornerstone speech was over, the skies were dark and threatening, and a few drops spattered down on the black sod. Ike perched on the top of the back seat of a green Cadillac convertible and was driven out through the crowds, smiling and waving. The car turned up toward Abilene's business district, past the "Welcome Home Ike" banners on every lamppost and in every store window. It stopped on Northwest Third Street at the Sunflower Hotel, a plain, eight-story square brick building which is Abilene's only skyline...
...from Behind. On the gravel paths and carefully groomed sod of the Plaza, by the 250-year-old Imperial moat, a bloody, violent scene burst into life. The Internationale roared in a thousand throats and the Communists brought out of concealment rocks, bags of offal and vicious, steel-reinforced bamboo spears. They surged toward thin cordons of police. In the first wave marched spear-and club-wielders. Behind them, in the classic tactic of trained street fighters, were ranks of stone-throwers. Messengers scurried between the lines to transmit orders from leaders, and on the sidelines girls stood...
...side, saw the Corsair bearing silently down from behind, billowing smoke. His warning shout was carried away by the wind. The women did not have a chance to turn their heads before they were struck and killed by the windmilling propeller. The plane plowed on across the green sod, crashed into a pine grove and burst into flames...
...Austria, Red army strength remains at 50,000. There are still no signs of Soviet troop concentrations in Czechoslovakia, but the Russians there have been working on an experiment: landing MIGs, which have wide, tough undercarriages and soft tires, on sod fields. If it works, and plain fields turn out to be usable as jet airports, the Soviet potential for striking out suddenly from hundreds of places would be immeasurably increased. Airfields are being strengthened, but there are few indications of extensive rail and road building, the kind that would be necessary for a long, sustained war, as distinct from...
...booming business: every year Americans spend $250 million for vitamins (four-fifths of it for pills and capsules). Much of this spending, Dr. McCollum believes, is foolish, because most people can get all the vitamins tney need from proper diet. Elmer McCollum was a farm boy, born (in a sod hut) near Fort Scott, Kans. As a young man, with a Ph.D. from Yale, he went to the University of Wisconsin to work on cattle feeds. But the experiments were being made on heifers, which are unhandy as laboratory animals. McCollum wanted to try out the feeds on rats...