Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city fathers for more money, the teachers' union planned to have 825 members, one from each city school, camp out in tents in City Hall Plaza in early May. Parks Commissioner Newbold Morris, however, declared that he would not permit the camp-out. It would ruin the grass, he said. Besides, he added, Mayor Wagner had proclaimed that particular week City Parks Week...
Geese can be bought for $3 apiece, or rented for as little as $1.50 a season, and their ravenous appetites make them more than a match for marauding Johnson grass-a hardy weed that sprouts between the cotton rows again and again, despite the heftiest doses of weed killer. A brace of the waddling birds can keep an acre of cotton weeded; a gaggle of twelve geese can gobble as much as a hard-working man can clear with a hoe. Cotton-goosing farmers save $20 per acre compared with the stiffer cost of chemical weeding. The only drawback...
...grumble at Park's compromise. But in fact, they needed that much time to organize their parties for an election campaign. The civilians knew who their most potent opponent would be: General Park himself, who no doubt would use the six-month postponement to build up a grass-roots political organization strong enough to help him switch from fatigues to flannels and take office as a civilian President...
Some of the solutions Miss Arendt proposes to the problems she has raised do not seem very helpful, notably her proposal that thousands of little grass-roots councils be started to revitalize political life in the United States. But in the context of the book, where the problems the author has chosen to examine are delineated with great clarity, the answers seem of secondary importance...
During the morning someone on the Hill ate one of the eggs. A car squashed another. That left 148 colored ovals hidden in the grass...