Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...late Senator from Kentucky, was a man who wouldn't harm a flea. A peace-loving, Sunday-school-going ex-judge, he had shaggy grey locks and a nose of such W. C. Fieldsian proportions that he was once described as "looking like a rhinoceros crashing through a grass...
...Army architects who planned the Air Corps's Randolph Field near San Antonio made one mistake. They forgot about sidewalks, and people there have to walk in the paved streets or on the brown, famished grass. Otherwise the post is one of the Army's finest. On the east and west sides are two wide, grassed flying fields. Between, in precisely patterned octagons and circles, are separate rows of shops, barracks, officers' and noncoms' homes, all converging on the white, stone-towered administration building Where the post commandant rules...
There were about 5,000 birds. They protested loudly when the men came near, refused to get off their nests until the men were close enough to snap pictures (see cut). The nests, about a foot across, were of grass lined with soiled white down. There were four creamy white eggs in the average clutch. The men took two goose specimens and five eggs, started back down the river. Last week the specimens and eggs were safe at the Canadian National Museum in Ottawa, and it was announced to the world that the breeding ground of Ross's goose...
Prepared under the direction of Paul C. Mangelsdorf, professor of Botony, the exhibit traces the development of modern corn from a coarse wild grass...
Another short story of the psychological variety, but one in which the main character is of even more an introverted and frustrated type, is Billy Abrahams' "Wind In Dry Grass." Pure character psychology, without recourse to actual external detail, is a tough assignment, but Abrahams handles the job well. The kaleidoscopic emotions of the dying intellectual, frustrated by the realization of his physical inferiority, are portrayed poignantly and effectively...