Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Describing important convictions in the administration's urban policy, he said, "The small town atmosphere has appeared from our major cities and cannot be reclaimed. Yet somehow the persists that city planners can recapture the virtues of the past with green and high rise apartments in the of untrodden grass...
...constructive purpose. No matter what he does, he is not an African; he will remain an American, and no mortification of the flesh will change that fact. Leaving aside for the moment considerations of health and nutrition, it is certain that any American who tries to live in a grass hut and subsist on yams and termites will soon find himself ostracized by his colleagues at his own professional level, who will invariably live on a standard inconceivably higher than that of the peasant and who will in most cases be quite jealous of their own status and position...
Across the Border. Angola's troubled area is the sprawling Congo district on the northern frontier. There the rainy season turned roads into quagmires of oozing mud, and the elephant grass grows eight-feet high, making concealment a simple matter for the terrorists who slipped across the border by night from President Joseph Kasavubu's Republic of the Congo. Most are followers of a determined, softspoken, exiled African Angolan named Holden Roberto, 36, who has spent months organizing the revolt from the headquarters of his Union of the Populations of Angola* in Léopoldville, the Congo...
...Replacement of chaparral (Southwestern for brush) by grass improves water yield...
...leather jackets and surly expressions had been observed in the crowds. Newbold Morris, a blueblooded liberal Republican who probably wishes by now that he had not been appointed Park Commissioner, decreed that there would be no more singing. His interest, he explained, was in merely protecting the Washington Square grass. (There is some grass in the square, pushing its way up through a mulch of ice-cream wrappers, but there is none within a beer can's throw of the folk singers' fountain...