Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...organization, more than issues, that brought McGovern his nomination, and his army of enthusiastic grass-roots volunteers face an immensely more difficult task in organizing and canvassing a nation than they did in taking on primary states in sequence. So far, only about 15 key organizers are set to go. There is a strong network of massive manpower available at lower levels, however, in about 35 states, where McGovern's superb organizations blitzed delegate caucuses and primary elections. The McGovern staff is trying to bring local candidates and professional politicians into his cause and will offer cooperative candidates...
...climax of their seventh U.S. tour, which has been, in purely show-biz terms, a vast success. Every concert they have given has been packed solid, the tickets all sold weeks in advance; in San Francisco, the barter price for a $5.00 ticket was an ounce of grass and seven grams of hash, or, from scalpers, $50 cash; by Chicago, the price for a $6.50 ticket had risen to $70-accompanied by the rumor that someone had printed and sold a quarter of a million dollars' worth of fake tickets, which, mercifully, did not turn up at the gate...
Boudu Saved from Drowning, A charming comedy from 1935 about a shaggydog man who disrupts the life of intert bourgeoisie is billed with a Renoir bore and Renoir dud. Picnic on the Grass and A Day in the Country, BRATTLE THEATER. Boudu: 6, 9:35 Picnic...
...year accounted for only 11 Ibs. of the average 192 Ibs. of meat eaten by Americans. Imports have been low partly because of quotas and partly because of quality. While Americans savor the well-marbled steaks and tender roasts that come from grain-fed cattle, foreign ranchers generally raise grass-fed cattle, which produces leaner meat. In the U.S., imported beef is usually ground up into hamburgers and hot dogs...
This time McPhee splendidly records the sights and inhabits the psyches of a dozen or so great players at key moments during the 1970 matches at Wimbledon. His triumph, though, is a portrait of Robert Twynam, senior groundsman, who for years has exhorted the Wimbledon grass to grow, almost blade by blade. For Twynam, the empyrean racket men of the age are mainly classified as "toe-draggers, sliders or choppers," in relation to how their profane tennis shoes carve up England's most pruned and perfect piece of greensward...