Word: sodding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some 2,500 construction workers are rushing to cover the fairground's red clay with sod, lay the roads and put the finishing touches on structures like the enormous Chinese-Egyptian-Peruvian pavilion before opening day. Most Knoxvillians are steeling themselves for a six-month influx of 11 million tourists. But for all that, the fair, named the Knoxville International Energy Exposition, will be modest by international standards. Montreal's Expo '67, for example, was ten times as costly, and included twice as many foreign participants...
Stretching toward sunset from the Missouri, South Dakota's West River country is an unrelieved expanse of rough-hewn plains and arid badlands. Under the tough sod lie prairie-dog towns and nuclear missile silos. Above ground, a handful of ranchers raise sheep and cattle on the stingy rangeland. Mostly, natives say, there are miles and miles of miles and miles...
While some of the B&G work is annual maintenance, the reunions and Commencement act as a "big push" behind the $100.000 spent on sod and seeding for the grass in the Yard. Bernard K. Keohon. B&G supervisor of Grounds, said this week, adding that the University had to pay $2500 for new shrubs in the Yard, new wood stakes and "costly wire" to protect the grass in the Yard...
...Henry Faber, the Nazi spy in Follett's Eye of the Needle, Alex proves to be a demmed elusive character. With typical guile, he manages to extract the precise details of every Allied position and plan from the briefcase of an alcoholic British headquarters officer while the silly sod makes love to a kinky belly dancer named Sonja. While Sonja wriggles, Alex scribbles, relaying this trove of vital and invaluable information to Rommel from a houseboat on the Nile, using a wireless code based on Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel Rebecca...
Jackson said he expects the extension to be completed by May 1, giving the sod beneath the terrace time to get firm...