Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grass-Roots Sentiments. Congress' new mood showed across a whole spectrum of issues. Items...
What brought on Congress' mood? Partly it was the good sense of Congress. Partly it was the firmed-up leadership lately shown by President Eisenhower. Partly it was the voice of the people: during their Easter recess (TIME, April 21) members of Congress heard unexpected grass-roots sentiments that many a Democratic state Governor had already detected, e.g., wariness toward tax cuts, disgust at the mud dredged up by the McClellan committee's labor investigation, widespread if reluctant acceptance of foreign aid as a cold-war necessity...
...school dances and such it was the custom for ten or a dozen smooth-faced young singers to array themselves on the stage during intermissions. This was the signal to head for the tall grass with your lady love. But now the Dunster Dunces have put out another record and we can all catch up on what was missed...
...Allen was the intense radiation storm encountered 600 miles from the earth by Explorer satellites. Still to be learned is whether this danger zone stretches from pole to pole. If so, the space traveler may have to hurry through it, as Dr. Simons says, "like running fast through a grass fire...
...offer to show visitors around for 10 rupees-or to go quietly away for 5. There is a tiger hunt, but also its backstage management: the twelve-year-old boys, armed with clay hand grenades loaded with gunpowder, whose job it is to flush the frightened cats from their grass-filled ravine. Vividly, Author Campbell makes the reader experience the suffocating, insect-filled heat of India, the pervasiveness of religion and sex-often in combination-the desperation of the poor and the rapacity of the rich...