Word: grass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ECUADOR Working with the Sports Federations in the provinces. Volunteers will work at grass roots levels to encourage construction of facilities, formation of sports clubs, and camps for the underprivileged, and will probably teach physical education in the local secondary schools. They will also help get underway a strong new program of physical education at Central University in Quito...
...book is written with a marvelous consistency of style--the same phrases appear over and over. Things are constantly "flowering up," the "rank weeds of bureaucracy" are pruned, and the fight is constantly being waged at the "grass roots." Mr. Villard also believes in the personal touch: he includes a detailed and scathing biographical sketch of John J. Rooney, Chairman of the House Subcommittee on State Department Appropriations, who opposes the use of the "proper lubricant" in diplomatic affairs...
...program to a small computer. The experts at Stanford Research Institute visualize mechanical arms getting out the preselected food, cooking and serving it. Similarly programmed household robots would wash dishes, dispose of the garbage (onto a conveyer belt moving under the street), vacuum rugs, wash windows, cut the grass. Edward Fredkin, founder of Cambridge's Information International Inc., has already developed a computer-cum-mechanical-arm that can "see" a ball thrown its way and catch it. Soon, Fredkin expects his gadget to be able to play a mean game of pingpong...
...South Boston, past the innumerable suburbs. You didn't go skiing and the New York trip some-how fizzled out and you just can't bear Cambridge for one more day; so on a whim you try the Cape--sand dunes covered with snow, tufts of tall, yellow grass peeking out of the white cover--that kind of thing. And you find yourself driving over the canal, anxious for your first look at wintry Cape...
...cartoonists, it was all a matter of sharp blacks and whites, a picture etched in the vitriol of their trade. Johnson was a cranky old codger blind to criticism and deaf to dissent; he was a foolish tourist taken in by the grass skirts and leis of a Pacific tourist trap...