Word: grass
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...police are under fire on still another front. A coalition of mostly black grass-roots organizations, led by Democratic Congressman Ralph Metcalfe, has been waging an all-out campaign to end what it considers excessive police brutality. Their complaints were reinforced by a report issued by the Chicago Law Enforcement Study Group that showed Chicago police were involved in fatal shootings at a rate that is three times higher than in New York, Los Angeles and Detroit. Also, during a day-long hearing, a dozen witnesses, eleven blacks and one white, testified. Some of them told of their traumatic experiences...
...floodwaters were most savage in Wilkes-Barre because the town lies at the bottom of a bowl-like depression surrounded by high ridges. The main street of the city is normally about level with the river and only enormous grass-covered 20-foot dikes separate the Susquehanna from the business district. Driving down "Five-Mile Hill" on the main road into Wilkes-Barre one can easily see how a rescue worker from Scranton could say, "It's just a hole...
Boudu Saved from Drowning, A charming comedy from 1935 about a shaggy-dog man who disrupts the life of inert bourgeoisie is billed with a Renoir bore and a Renoir dud, Picnic on the Grass and A Day in the Country. BRATTLE THEATER. Boudu: 6, 9:35 Picnic...
...electricity as he wishes; instead of using his electric shave-cream warmer in the morning, he might use 15 additional minutes of light to read at night, or he could watch a ball game on TV instead of using electric edge trimmers to cut a few blades of grass growing over the edge of the sidewalk...
Other Green Committee projects this year have included the planting of shrubs near Thayer Hall and the seeding of the Yard with greener, longer-lasting grass. The Committee has drawn up plans which would eventually renovate the entire Yard area...