Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Hotel Regina sipped their beer in relative comfort, grateful for a temperature dip that had taken the thermometer down to the 80s. Upriver at Coquilhatville, astraddle the equator, it was sweltering as usual, and the natives crept out of their huts to sleep in the tall moist grass. To the east, where the rain forest changes to flat plains, then rolling hills, then towering mountains, blacks and whites alike lit fires as the sun disappeared, folding themselves in blankets to keep off the bitter chill...
...Lloyd, who died in 1953 when his dream was only on the drawing board. The son of a Missouri Confederate Army officer, Lloyd moved to California at eleven when his family bought several thousand acres of ranch land in Ventura. One day his father, out riding, came across a grass fire, spurred his horse to the bare ground of a knoll for safety. When the fire reached the knoll, the ground suddenly burst into shooting flame. Lloyd leaped off his horse, breaking his leg as he jumped to safety over an embankment (the horse burned to death). The story made...
Strategists on the Grass. When Bobby blew the bugle, Connecticut's Democratic State Chairman John Bailey and Washington Lawyer Jim Rowe, representing Vice-Presidential Nominee Lyndon Johnson, hurried to Hyannisport for a series of alfresco strategy lessons. Each morning eight thickly padded green chaise longues were wheeled out onto Bobby's lawn and assembled in a circle, along with a long-leashed telephone, maps, charts and other paraphernalia. There Bobby, Jack and their top strategists - Kenny O'Donnell, Larry O'Brien, Brother-in-Law Steve Smith, Bailey and Rowe - began to map out the looming campaign...
...poorly organized book that presents the Earps as little better than cow-country Capones. Yet, if he has deflated one dream, Waters, unlike most debunkers. has offered a pleasant vision in its place: that of a gay, gallant old lady in her rocking chair, dreaming of corn-tall buffalo grass and a dead, handsome lover...
Gravel for Grass. Sherman Fairchild amply meets his own definition of managers with vision. "If you can do constructive thinking along unorthodox lines in business," says IBM President Thomas Watson Jr., "you have it made. Sherman Fairchild is able to think along unorthodox lines." Fairchild's departure from orthodoxy begins right at the front door of his town house on Manhattan's East 65th Street, where he conducts all the affairs of his companies. The house is the height of a three-story house, but actually contains six levels built around an inner courtyard. Instead of staircases, long...