Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...safeguard" against future surpluses, Nixon's program would rely heavily on a proposal that New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller urged back in late 1959: greatly expanding the "conservation reserve" (land taken out of crop production and planted to grass or trees). During a "transition period," while Operation Consume plus the expanded conservation reserve gradually cut back surpluses, Nixon would use a combination of price supports and acreage controls to cope with major problem crops such as wheat-a Democratic-style program of the type that Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson opposes.* But once markets for farm products...
...their restrained splendor, ancient Persian miniatures still suggest an ingredient of present-day Iran, a harsh and occasionally beautiful land where each oasis, even a blade of grass, can seem a small miracle, and where the diminutive art form continues to flourish. With economy of line and careful balance of color, the best of the miniatures capture an unexpected spaciousness and a certain timeless rhythm...
...wink whenever the angle at which light hits it is changed. Suda placed the come-hither eye in a 12-in. doll made of black sheet plastic inflated with air. Besides its stubby, clinging arms, the dakkochan boasts ring-shaped ears, a red doughnut mouth and a plastic grass skirt. Girl dakkochans can be told from boy dakkochans by the fact that the girls have hair bows...
...Though an injury as simple as a pulled muscle might have kept Johnson off the Olympic team altogether, he went all out for a special reason. Kuznetsov had captured his world record and pushed the score to 8,357 points. In the ninth event, Johnson raced smoothly across the grass and sent a silver javelin shimmering into the air. When it landed 233 ft. 3 in. away, Johnson knew he had already passed Kuznetsov's world record. In pure delight, he began sprinting after his toss. Then he suddenly stopped and knelt to pray in the middle...
...Hotel Regina sipped their beer in relative comfort, grateful for a temperature dip that had taken the thermometer down to the 80s. Upriver at Coquilhatville, astraddle the equator, it was sweltering as usual, and the natives crept out of their huts to sleep in the tall moist grass. To the east, where the rain forest changes to flat plains, then rolling hills, then towering mountains, blacks and whites alike lit fires as the sun disappeared, folding themselves in blankets to keep off the bitter chill...