Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Youth Division is headquartered in posh offices one block from the White House. There a staff of twelve professional political workers-all pointedly under 30-directs the most sophisticated youth campaign of any candidate. Its goal: to organize young volunteers across the country for doorbell ringing, voter registration and grass-roots organizing. With registration among the young currently running 2 to 1 Democratic, the G.O.P. hopes that its youthful volunteers can persuade enough of their contemporaries to vote Republican to offset the Democrats' nominal advantage...
Where does this leave the Left of the Democratic Party? McGovern has an excellent organization, solid grass-roots fund raising efforts, and forthright positions on the issues. Lindsay's assets are personal appeal (which could cut both ways), money, and a campaign based on the theme of the average citizen's powerlessness vis-a-vis Washington. McCarthy also has good funding, high public recognition, and an expressed willingness to challenge the Democratic Party in November if it again presents the American people with a choiceless choice...
...land in elephant grass in a clearing. The only thing to be heard besides the rotor blades is the feeble stutter of the door gunner's machine gun. The landing zone is "cold" -meaning that there are no enemy about-but the troops find fresh tracks almost immediately. We follow the trail until shortly after 5. when another night position is set up. The forward artillery observer calls in artillery strikes on an area that he thinks the enemy might have moved into. He orders the strikes for 10 p.m. -like booking a telephone call-and waits...
...followers in California, where one of their early-and since abandoned -tactics was to disrupt services at local churches. In 1969, after Berg had a vision of imminent earthquake, about 50 of the band embarked on a period of wandering, during which, legend has it, they had to eat grass to survive...
People drink imported beer, smoke tobacco and grass-which is legal in Laos--and fondle girls provided by White Rose. The girls are often Thai and Vietnamese, considered to be more aggressive than Laotians...