Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Bubi, two bottles of King George Scotch, two guitars, three tennis rackets, 16 pieces of miscellaneous baggage and a cute, redheaded airline hostess named Esther. Wearing his inevitable dark glasses and a natty grey flannel suit, Bao Dai drove along roads lined with French Tommy-gunners facing the long grass where Communist snipers might be hiding...
Cattleman Robert Justus Kleberg Jr., boss of Texas' 920,000 acre King Ranch, is proudest of his development of the Santa Gertrudis breed,* the hardiest and heaviest all-grass-fed cattle in the U.S. (TIME, Dec. 15, 1947). Kleberg always kept most of his prize Santa Gertrudis bulls for the King Ranch, but other cattlemen sought them so avidly that each year he obligingly sold a few, at a standard price of $350. The waiting list grew so big that Bob Kleberg (rhymes with hay-burg) decided to try an experiment...
Tyrone and Micheline spend a good portion of their time necking in a grass hut when there are no parties or village dances to go to, but every few months they have to dodge a Jap patrol. It cannot be denied, however, that variety is the spice of life in the Philippines...
...Blade. In Memphis, careless Grass Cutter Lehman Barnes drove his power lawn mower into the street, ran into an automobile, was charged with reckless driving...
...poured fire onto the advancing cavalrymen. Red mines blew the treads off U.S. tanks and convoys were held up under fire for hours at a time. Air and artillery support could not take all the burden off the troops on the ground. Rockets from F80 Shooting Stars set dry grass and bright autumn foliage ablaze, but failed to smash some Communist redoubts. In the first day of the attack the cavalry took many casualties, moved little more than a mile beyond the parallel. Said one officer: "It's been rough work, rougher than we expected. We had hoped...