Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next year to build 10,000 classrooms and low-cost housing for some 175,000 people; it would cancel low-interest loans to 10,000 farmers for plows, seed and fertilizer to escape subsistence-level farming, wipe out a plan for loans to 6,000 small businessmen to stimulate grass-roots private enterprise, and force withdrawal of U.S. support for 60 mobile medical units which provide treatment for 2,000,000 people in 600 Central American villages. And finally, it would prevent the U.S. Food for Peace program from expanding its operations to help feed some 6,000,000 children...
...queue reached down the shaded walk and across the grass, streaming out like a scarf in the wind. Children and adults, they had come from Harlem, Park Avenue and Greenwich Village to gather at Central Park's Delacorte Theater for the final scheduled performance in a ten-night summer dance festival. When the box office opened to pass out the 2,263 free tickets that filled every seat, the end of the long line was awash with customary disappointment. As had happened on every other night of the festival, there was one who was turned away for every...
...Zeit wields an influence out of all proportion to its size-a bare 200,000 subscribers-and in more than one sphere. The paper was one of the first to recognize postwar Germany's literary resurgence, among the first to encourage such gifted young novelists as Giinter Grass and Heinrich Boll...
...showed up, but 272 other tennis hopefuls did. Seventy-six players from 28 nations on both sides of the Iron Curtain even whizzed in on a chartered plane from Amsterdam, poor-mouthing in many tongues that they were used to clay courts and expected to play miserably on the grass. Australia sent seven men, and the Common Market chipped in two each from Belgium and The Netherlands, four from France, three from Germany and one from Italy. But for the first time in the eight dreary years since Tony Trabert won the men's singles...
Three notches behind Ralston is Eugene Scott, 25, a big server from New York. Yaleman Scott won this year's Eastern grass court championships in South Orange, N.J., last year beat McKinley and Veteran Vic Seixas in indoor matches...