Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Laver did just that in the championship match. Throughout the first set -which was delayed for 1 hr. 35 min. while a helicopter tried to dry out the soggy grass-Laver and Roche gingerly tested each other. They broke each other's serves an astonishing seven times. After the ninth game Rod calmly paused to switch to spiked shoes, fully aware that adjustment to the shift would probably cost him the set. It did. But in the second set Laver settled into a flawless groove. He broke Roche's spirit by consistently parrying his powerful serve, glided swiftly...
...delegates-from an Anglican archbishop to fervid Pentecostalists-had come to Minneapolis expecting something else. The six-day congress had originally been planned as a grass-roots session on evangelism, a follow-up to the more intellectual World Congress on Evangelism held in Berlin in 1966. But in his welcome, Honorary Chairman Billy Graham promised that the meeting "will affect every religious group in the country in the next decade." Keynoter Oswald C. J. Hoffmann (see box) continued the warmup, warning the delegates: "If the Gospel is demonstrated only vocally and not vitally in the everyday actions of Christ...
...most Harvard freshmen are left with very little to do. There are always drugs, of course. As long as you're not a flagrant pusher. Harvard will keep you safe from the nares. (In fact, I'm sure many an administrator welcomed the advent of grass as one way to defuse revolutions.) Consequently, grass is plentiful, and cheap, mostly sold by Cliffies who don't need the money because their fathers live in Westchester and have all the money they need. But even drugs are becoming passe. They used to be the major social determinant of freshman year. There were...
...weather-beaten, century-old farmhouse overlooking the St. George River near Gushing, Me., is one of the most familiar structures in America. Called "the Olson farm," it stands bleak and solitary above a brown-grass hillside in Andrew Wyeth's acclaimed and much reproduced painting, Christina's World. Now the house belongs to Hollywood Producer Joe Levine (Two Women, Divorce-Italian Style), who owns 13 Wyeths and has just paid $30,000 so that the house can be preserved and restored as a Wyeth museum. The producer and his wife paid a visit to Gushing to sign...
...corner of Britain, many of whom had hitchhiked for days to get there with bedrolls and rucksacks on their backs. For a week, brightly colored tents had dotted the festival grounds. For the past twelve hours, the idolaters of rock had been staked out in choice positions on the grass or aboard knobby limbs of strategically located trees in the arena. They were young. They were more than 100,000 strong. They had come to the Isle of Wight off the English shore at Southampton to witness the first full-fledged public appearance by Singer-Composer-Poet Bob Dylan since...