Word: grass
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first announced candidate, McGovern has support among the young for his long stand against the war-a stand that makes his something of a one-issue candidacy. Knowing that, McGovern is now focusing more on economic issues. He is trying to organize the primary states down to the grass roots;' his campus organizations (more than 300) are the best in the field. But he is anathema to organized labor, has a tendency to shoot from the hip (his prompt labeling of the President's wage-price freeze as "economic madness," for example), and suffers from an image as "the Wally...
...Indian, I've never seen a reason why I shouldn't use it." His grandfather became a Smith, Silverheels noted, when Indian officials advised members of the family to change their names "so that they wouldn't be signing papers 'Bird Sitting on the Grass' or 'Cow Jumping Over the Moon.' Mother preferred Smith, but now she's in her mid-eighties and doesn't care any more...
Dusty and Sweets pass a good part of the weekend in the Studio City Motel shooting dope. At one point, lying on the grass in one of those vacant Los Angeles parks, Dusty says that if they just had ten pounds of dope their problems would be solved. "Sure," says Sweets. "We could sleep forever." Larry and Pam, still not past high school, live together. They spend most of their time getting loaded. Larry scores off Dusty. He helps Pam shoot under the tongue for the first time...
...been a long and arduous journey; now the rewards are at hand. The nuclear family is about to start a week of nuclear camping. The camp includes: a swimming pool, a laundromat, a supermarket, a billiard academy, a miniature golf course, and fence-to-fence asphalt and plastic grass...
...Grass. Conveniences like these, however, are regarded by many inmates as a fair exchange for the shortage of real flora and fauna. "I like being able to run over and pick up a loaf of bread," says Mrs. Marcia Reese, waiting in the laundromat for a load of nappies to dry. "We enjoyed the quiet last week in the woods, but until my kids are out of diapers, this is more fun." For older kids, Campland is a mixed bag. Young Jeff Andreoli complains that he cannot play baseball or football: "There's no grass here." Karen Folts...