Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grass-roots political movement, so fervently supported that it survived ten years under a dictator's jack boot, last week smoothly propelled its leader into Venezuela's presidency. The party is the left-leaning Acción Democrática (A.D.). Its leader: scholarly, owlish Rómulo Betancourt, 50. In his dust, Betancourt left Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal, head of the revolutionary junta that ousted Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez last January, and Rafael Caldera, candidate of the Social Christian COPEI party...
...teaching school and the kids are waiting for a street light. Instead of just waiting around and having them get into trouble, you send them looking for four-leaf clovers or a special kind of grass...
...visit was abruptly canceled; Ambassador Pegov stopped flashing his gold-toothed smile and packed for the trip home. The Soviet radio, in Persian language broadcasts, cried that "American warmongers will be masters of the country," and painted a gruesome picture of Iranians living in mud huts, forced to eat grass, date seeds and locusts because "everyone knows that the policy of militarizing the country is one of the main reasons for difficult living conditions...
...used the insects in part as a flight vehicle for his own soarings into the wild extramundane blue yonder, dedicated Beekeeper Crompton lets the bees buzz for themselves. He follows them, with cries of pride and lamentation, from their hexagonal cradles to their grave in the grass...
...last rendezvous with social security. Her wings are torn; her last load of nectar is nothing much; she falls short of the hive. "Just at the time the youngsters at the hive are coming out for school, her grip relaxes and she falls into the wet grass below...