Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Liberals knew that in Nicolet-Yamaska they had made mistakes. They had neglected grass-roots organizing. Their party was badly split in the district; they had run a weak candidate who leaned on the fact that his father once represented the riding. Nevertheless, the election threw an unaccustomed scare into the Liberals. The Tories felt nothing but joy. When Leader George Drew entered Parliament the night of the election, party colleagues gave him a loud cheer and, following time-honored custom, threw copies of Hansard (equivalent to the Congressional Record) across the House...
...tried to join the U.S. Army in the Philippines, but he was too small. The Japanese put him into a forced labor camp, cutting wood for charcoal. One day, 17-year-old José slipped away from a work gang, swam across a river and hid in the bamboo grass, waiting, so "I will be the one in Pozorrubio to find the Americans." Three G.I.s took him to headquarters, and after that, "I walk all around and show where is Jap guns, there, and there and every...
Said Charles E. Merrill, the directing partner who runs the firm: "The financial industry has its roots deep in every part of the nation. America's industrial machine is owned at the grass roots* where it should be owned and not in some mythical 'Wall Street...
...these grass-roots owners are aware of their ownership. Last year, an aged woman walked into Merrill Lynch's Pittsburgh office with a package of yellowed stock certificates she had found in an old bureau drawer. She thought they were worthless, but had borrowed 30? carfare to go to the office to make sure. The stock was worth...
...Japanese went the whole way and organized from the scientific grass roots up. Probably no other country in the world has a scientific "congress" that is elected by popular vote of its scientists...