Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Portuguese policemen were surprised in a parked car and hacked to death. Some 50 of the raiders made a sudden assault on the midtown military prison but were cut down by machine guns. Others attacked a police headquarters close to Luanda's huge African city of shacks and grass huts; police officers tumbled from bed to fight for their lives. Three days later, the casualty list was curtly announced: six members of the police force, one African army corporal and 14 attackers of undisclosed race had been killed; 53, mostly Africans, were wounded, and some 100 arrested...
...Advise and Consent, Drury (1) 3. The Last of the Just, Schwarz-Bart (4) 4. Sermons and Soda-Water, O'Hara (3) 5. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (5) 6. The Dean's Watch, Goudge (6) 7. Decision at Delphi, Maclnnes (7) 8. Shadows in the Grass, Dinesen 9. Pomp and Circumstance, Coward (9) 10. The Lovely Ambition, Chase...
...terminal, a solution to the Square parking problem by addition of nearly 150 spaces. Think now, fiften stories to bring over one thousand more consumers and friends to Cambridge, to add great sums to the tax base. Think, all this at the cost of a walled-in strip of grass, where cows cannot possibly graze without imperiling their lives, grass whose only value is that once a handful of troops gathered there to march to Bunker Hill. Nothing could be more in the public interest than John Briston Sullivan's proposal...
...Grass Is Greener. A British comedy of manors is skillfully brought off by Gary Grant, as an earl who opens his stately home to the public and is cuckolded by Robert Mitchum, playing a cartoon American...
Shadows in the Grass, by Isak Dinesen. Crystalline recollections, by Denmark's greatly gifted author, of a decade (1921-31) spent in Kenya; her theme, written as an elegy, is the relation of master and servant...