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Word: grass (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over in ten minutes. Shoes, jackets, pools of blood, torn picket signs, plastic helmets--all these remained in the wake of the people. Grass lawns were torn up and the excited horses left dung on porches and in the streets. Now the people walked back to the Jackson St. Church. A Negro man clutched his head and moaned repeatedly while his friends helped him walk. Two white boys clutched handkerchiefs to stem the flow of blood from their faces. Two people remained behind, unconscious; the police put them in ambulances...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: Montgomery Police Halt Tuesday March; Beatings Nearly Provoke Riot by Negroes | 3/24/1965 | See Source »

...stony Andes can support only marginal farming. Across the peaks lies the great, green montana, Peru's eastern lowland that stretches out to the Amazon and Brazil. The montana represents 62% of Peru's land area, is rich in rubber, jute, fruits, coffee, timber and grass for ranching. Yet it is home to barely 14% of Peru's people. The problem is accessibility. There are few roads and no railroads across the mountains; transportation is by air, or up the rivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru: The New Conquest | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

Smoking marijuana-also called pot, tea, grass, stuff, boo, hemp and Mary Jane-seems to be this year's way among students of preserving the perennial illusion that the younger generation is going to hell. Statistics on the problem are nonexistent, and its extent is tough to gauge. School officials normally ignore it or hush it up; students with first-hand knowledge are prone to boastful exaggeration; arrests are relatively rare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Pot Problem | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

Both the French and Germans contend that their schemes eliminate color distortions, which they claim may turn actors roast-beef red or grass overly emerald green when the U.S. system is used-over long-distance lines. U.S. technicians insist that such problems have long since been overcome, that the rival plans are too costly and that the French system has many other bugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: The Coming of Color | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

Panch spun onto the grass, and all the way back to sixth place. Dieringer shot into second. But the rain was blinding, and worried officials flashed the yellow caution light-no passing. Then the red light was on. After 332.5 of the scheduled 500 miles, the race was over. Lorenzen was the winner over

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Back to the Stocks | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

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