Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Russell Smith, executive director of the CAC, both movements represent an attempt to effect action through "grass roots participation." "Recreation is a common denominator," Smith declared. Organizing people in development of recreational facilities might unite them for further action in rehabilitation and redevelopment of rundown neighborhoods...
...bedroom tent went a white-lacquered zinc bathtub, hot-water plumbing, and a flush toilet-equipped with a red velvet seat cover for comfort in the early-morning chill. An airstrip was constructed; access roads from Katmandu, 160 miles away, were widened and improved. In high grass four miles from camp, workmen set up a "hunting ring," surrounded by a 5-ft. fence of white cloth and stocked with a smallish 8-ft. 8-in. tigress flushed from the jungle the day before...
...Advise and Consent, Drury (2) / 4. To Kill A Mockingbird, Lee (3) / 5. Pomp and Circumstance, Coward (6) / 6. Sermons and Soda-Water, O'Hara (5) / 7. Winnie Hie Pu, Milne / 8. A Burnt-Out Case, Greene 9. Decision at Delphi, Maclnnes (7) / 10. Shadows on the Grass, Dinesen...
UNIVERSITY: The current double jeopardy continues uncomfortably: THE GRASS IS GREENER, with Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr; NEXT TO NO TIME, about which we will say (mercifully) next to nothing...
...fiction. Author Doris Lessing was born in Persia of British parents, grew up in Southern Rhodesia; in 1949, when she was 30, with a two-year-old son and a near-empty purse, she set out to discover the land of her fathers. Already a very good writer (The Grass Is Singing), she wanted to meet men and women who worked with their hands, to live with them and see them with their hair down. Having as little money as she did, she found her working people in a London rooming house, and their hair was down most...