Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Abroad, meanwhile, proCommunists and a wider spectrum of emotional anti-Americans took to the streets in a dozen foreign capitals from London to Tokyo, Tel Aviv to West Berlin. At home, thousands of Americans backed "Operation Gratitude," a grass-roots effort to show support of U.S. troops in Viet Nam through all-night vigils and round-the-clock displays of lights...
...though the Peace Corps rejects four out of five applicants, it is the country's largest single employer of new college graduates. In the beginning, the corps sought specialists; now it concentrates on volunteers with liberal-arts degrees. Their verve and versatility suit them for tackling villagers' grass-roots problems where experts might feel wasted. Their average age is 24, although an 80-year-old served as a nurse in Turkey and 142 volunteers currently are over...
There was a lot of frustration. One pretty blonde girl, who identified herself as Gretchen Begen of New York City, ran over the line yelling, "Come on, come on," to the crowd. But nobody came. She flopped down in the grass and marshals carted her away on a stretcher. Another girl, with magnificent eyes ringed in green and black paint and wearing an Indiana sweatshirt, got carted away, too. She was mad at the people she left behind sitting in the grass. She sat up in her stretcher and screamed, "Cowaaards!" When we asked for her name she just glared...
...mutter under his breath that he wasn't allowed to talk. Thus, save for the threats from the Marshals, the only time I heard a soldier speak was when the paratrooper in front of me turned to his sergeant and said in a disgusted voice, "Somebody's smoking grass...
...were developed in peroxide. Plot is so incidental that old seduction scenes are freely spliced into new films. In many instances, the footage is a third-rate melodrama bought cheaply in Europe and then fleshed out with a few shots of naked girls romping in the grass...