Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...march (TIME, June 17) could have been anywhere but in Mississippi. State highway patrolmen - from the same force that had walked off the job as mobs howled their hatred for Meredith at the University of Mississippi in 1962 - hovered around like mother hens; highway crews even mowed the high grass on the road shoulders to smooth the marchers' path. For veteran civil rights demonstrators, the atmosphere could hardly have seemed more unreal if the Ku Klux Klan had plied them with doughnuts and coffee...
...resembles table-tennis scoring: each successful shot earns one point, match is 31, and the player who reaches 31 first must have a two-point margin to win-otherwise, the match goes into an eight-point overtime. Service changes hands after every five points. On fast surfaces such as grass, big serves are discouraged either by 1) limiting the players to one serve per point, or 2) making them serve from a line 3 ft. behind the base line...
...described, in an old Potawatomi song: "The grass is moving, the trees are moving, the whole earth is moving...
...archives of his administration, a museum, and a building to house the Institute of Politics. But the five, presently used for a repair yard by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, is a large one, and Pie decided early that he did not want to have large expanses of grass of parkland. The Library was to being urban memorial, he said. He suggested that "support facilities"--commercial buildings for the use of visitors and members of the University community--be built on the site...
...itself against the drug's unrestrained use. Many psychiatrists agree. Among the examples they cite: an average of twelve LSD "bad trip" victims a month land, out of their minds, in New York's Bellevue Hospital; two LSD-using youths were discovered in Hollywood last October devouring grass and tree bark; a college student went berserk on an airliner bound from Los Angeles to San Francisco, tried to force his way into the pilot's cockpit before being subdued, a young male user in Los Angeles tried to stop a car on Wilshire Boulevard by saying "Halt...