Word: sodding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...1800s, when the first "sod-busters" arrived in the West with their constricting fences and farming habits, epithets like "squawmen" and "Indian lover" became part of the American language, and a special form of racism became widespread. Yet to the trappers, the Indian woman made the best wife. She skinned and fleshed his beaver and buffalo hides, sewed and ornamented his clothing, fashioned moccasins and snowshoes for him, and prepared him such delicacies as boiled buffalo hump, boiled unborn calf, and dried moose nose. If she had any drawback, it was galloping garrulity: contrary to stereotype, Indian women were constantly...
WIND ENSEMBLE literature has traditionally been dominated by the Sousa mentality, the effect of which has been the subjugation of ten thousand years of intellectual and spiritual development by the mindless necessities of a hundred yards of football sod. One of the most powerful arguments against the infinite perfectability and for the original sin of man is the steady accumulation of astoundingly vulgar pieces of brassy claptrap and woolly woodwind shrieks which feed the voracious football band. In the face of this surging ocean of treacle stand a handful of superb works for wind, three of which--Stravinsky...
...ball park. It was still there, all right, in the shadow of The World's Largest Peanut Sheller, but now it lay like an abandoned farm. The light poles had been moved around for football lighting, and the sandy gray soil had been harrowed and was awaiting fresh sod for the high school football season. Letters saying "Graceville Oilers Booster Club" had almost faded away on the concrete-block centerfield fence. The portable bleachers in left field had begun to rot beyond salvation. Gone were the dugouts, rickety frame sheds resembling the busstop shelters put along rural roads for school...
...Regarding "The Rich-Back to the Ould Sod" [June 28] perhaps the most conspicuous Mellon by his absence from the family's rendezvous was Larimer W. Mellon Jr., who, as a physician, dedicated, built and for the past twelve years has run the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Deschapelles, Haiti along with his wife Gwen. Larry Mellon's forte has been in giving all of his monies away to a hospital cen ter dedicated to the care of over 300,000 patients in a rural setting who otherwise would be without this resource. He is my nominee...
Northern Ireland can and does take considerable pride in its emigrant sons. Davy Crockett's parents came from Ulster. So did the ancestors of Sam Houston, Horace Greeley and ten U.S. Presidents.* Even so, last week was a special occasion. For a sentimental reunion on the ould sod, some 50 members of what is probably America's richest family gathered at the old family homestead -a clay-floored, thatch-roofed cottage near Omagh in County Tyrone...