Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miles out at sea [Dec. 11] to "see what it's like," a 16-year-old girl who tries it "to see what it's like" and gets caught, and a 23-year-old Viet Nam veteran who gets arrested and convicted for receiving a package of grass addressed to his friend...
...changes in Soviet society and the world" since the existing constitution was formulated under Stalin in 1936. Brezhnev added that the new constitution would be submitted to a national referendum. In Soviet political lexicon, that does not mean a mass, single-issue vote but usually a few months of grass-roots discussion, which can be interpreted any way the party desires...
...Voice of Thunder," as it became known in the pre-independence days of Free Bangladesh Radio, rolled across the multitude squatting on the dry yellow grass of the Dacca race course. "If the people of Bangladesh don't want me to contest the elections, then I don't want to sit in the National Assembly. Any one of you can go and sit there instead of me. Shall I contest the election? Should I? If you want me to contest, then raise your hand. Raise both hands to show you want me." Nearly half a million pairs...
...Buckley had testified against changing the pot laws. But now, in a commentary on the Cowan piece in the same issue, he writes, "I flatly agree with him." Buckley would not legalize pot, but would remove the criminal penalties for use. It seems, in fact, that Buckley has smoked grass himself-but only on his sailboat, outside the three-mile limit. His verdict: "To tell the truth, marijuana didn't do a thing...
...creating such "waste space" in Manhattan. Olmsted's tenacity was such that when his thigh was broken in three places by a carriage accident, he insisted on being carried round the park in a litter while he issued his orders to the foremen and struggled to complete, in grass and trees, his "gallery of mental pictures." Though he disapproved of such grand formal gardens as Versailles, the park entailed a stupendous effort of engineering. Ten million cartloads of earth and stone were dragged in and out of the area, millions of trees, vines and shrubs were planted, the brooks...