Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...women's Olympic track-and-field trials in Abilene, Texas last week, the most conspicuous onlooker was a chunky, intense young Negro with a pencil-thin mustache, who seemed to be all over the field. Between races, he paced the infield grass incessantly. At the finish line, hands clenched, chest thrust forward, his face a mask of rigid concentration, he pantomimed the runners breaking the tape. When the trials were over, the results were surprisingly good, and the credit belonged largely to 29-year-old Edward S. Temple, coach of Tennessee State University's "Tigerbelles...
After he had thrown the javelin 269 ft. 7½ in.. Bill Alley, 23, caught his spikes in the grass, pulled a muscle and spiked himself badly in his right calf as he fell. His leg bandaged, Alley limped back to throw six more times, but could not better his first try, finished a gallant second to Marine Lieut. Al Cantello, who had a mark of 277 ft. 7 in. "Oh, I wanted to win, man," said Alley. "I wanted...
...Lost City Ramblers, a trio of college men, sing a brand of hillbilly known as "Blue Grass." Born in Kentucky, the style calls for a complex string accompaniment-in this case on five-string banjo, fiddle and guitar-and a frenetically fast vocal line unreeled to a foot-slapping accompaniment. The Ramblers learned their best songs-Beware, O Take Care and Hopalong Peter-from such fabled Blue Grass groups as the Buckle-Busters and Dr. Smith's Champion Horse-Hair Pullers...
Suddenly, the Oldsmobile disintegrated into a thousand shreds of shrapnel, a blinding ball of flame, and a column of smoke 1,000 feet tall. Betancourt's car was hurled onto the center grass strip, and burst into flames. The President and his Minister managed to push open the left rear door and pull Mrs. Henriquez to safety. Badly burned, Chauffeur Valero and a presidential aide, Colonel Ramón Armas Peréz, tumbled out of the front seat...
...roof of the monastery is a terrace, seeded with grass and surrounded by a high parapet so that those on the terrace cannot see the ground below but must look out toward the horizon. At first Corbusier planned to make this the cloister, where the monks walk and meditate, but abandoned the idea because "it would be so beautiful that the monks would use it for an escape, which might prove perilous to their religious life." But he urged the Dominicans to "go up there from time to time. Let them allow you to go up as a reward...