Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Allowed for the most part to forage for themselves by night, the plateritos chewed the grass of the town square down to nubbins, ate up the flowerbeds around the bandstand, munched the leaves and pink buds off the scrubby palo borracho trees that line La Rioja's streets. They followed housewives from the marketplace and sometimes quietly stole vegetables from their baskets. At newsstands they even snagged and ate the latest edition of the daily Cordoba. As the pack prospered and multiplied on such fare, fines were imposed on loose burros and a squad of "burreros" was formed...
...Policy. Treasury's Texan Anderson reached agreement with congressional Texans Johnson and Sam Rayburn to keep tax cuts out of politics, won a wait-and-see period. Result: notable absence of grass-roots demand for tax cuts helped Congress avoid political temptation, keep income, corporation and most excise taxes at present levels...
...crowd massed before a huge, circular grass mound under which are buried the thousands of unidentified victims* of the first A-bomb drop exactly 13 years ago. Green wreaths were soon piled about the mound; a forest of incense sticks smoldered fragrantly. A bell tolled, signaling a minute's silence-but some women wept aloud. Then, watched by the silent crowd, Hiroshima's Mayor Tadao Watanabe released 800 doves. Ten black-robed Buddhist priests began a solemn, monotonous chant of prayers that would continue until sundown...
...note: The drive to the picturesque Stratford grounds by the Housatonic takes only three hours via the Massachusetts Turnpike and Exit 53 from the Merritt Parkway. There are free outdoor facilities for picnickers; and two girls in period costume sing Elizabethan duets on the grass a half hour before each performance...
...door, hands burning and hearts still tingling with a rediscovery of a bygone Fourth of July-a time when the franks were fat and hot and the firecrackers spat showers of sparks and the drum major's spinning baton flashed in the sun, and the grass in the park felt as soft as corn silk underfoot. Since opening night last Dec. 19, every audience has reacted in this same wholehearted way to The Music Man, Broadway's biggest musical...