Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been uglier or more intractable than the civil war in the Sudan. For 16 years, the 4,000,000 black Africans of the southern Sudan have been pitted against the 11 million mostly Arab northerners. An estimated 500,000 Sudanese, most of them southerners, have been killed; hundreds of grass-hut villages have been bombed, sacked and burned by the northern army and sometimes by the southern guerrillas, the Anyanya (named for the poison extracted from scorpions or cobras...
...always used to go on about how people who were smoking grass because they didn't want to confront life and their responsibilities and their problems and so on. You know, the old "drugs for escape" thing that most adults believe. Shit, man, there wasn't any life to confront in that town...
...Grass, hash, and limited quantities of acid rarely produce bad aftereffects, Pope has found; the drugs that worry him the most are speed and depressants. A number of young people described to him "a sequence beginning with marijuana, then a rise to a plateau of hallucinogen use, followed by... a retreat to opiates, barbiturates, and alcohol." Pope thinks that because of the older generation's heavy use of downs, "depressant use may inspire less guilt or anxiety in youths than does marijuana or the hallucinogens...
...rules of the Democratic Party reform are complex, but the aim is simple: to reduce back-room manipulation by bosses, broaden grass-roots participation and produce delegations at the Miami convention next July that more adequately represent women, blacks and the young -and the preferences of the voters...
FAVORITE SONS. The ability of a state leader to run as a favorite son in order to gain bargaining power at the convention has been largely blocked. The grass-roots party voters prefer to select delegates who are committed to a genuine candidate. Without the binding effect of the unit rule, a favorite son can no longer be certain that he will not be embarrassed by defections. Moreover, the rules now require that to be placed in nomination in Miami, a candidate must have the support of 50 delegates-no more than 20 of these from any single state. Thus...