Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Running Out. As usual, money was a problem, even though some surprisingly large sums came from individual donors. To cut costs, as well as keep the operation on a grass-roots level, Davis set up 14 regional offices for recruitment and training. Much of the meager treasury was expended on an ambitious propaganda project, a 30-minute color film titled Time Is Running Out, narrated by Folk Singer Joni Mitchell. The film was shown from campus to campus, accompanied by the distribution of thousands of leaflets...
...Burn down your cities and leave our farms," William Jennings Bryan once said, "and your cities will spring up again as if by magic, but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country." Amid tales of urban blight, the U.S. may find solace in the enduring, seemingly endless reach of its fecund farmland. The nation is still sustained by the richest bounty of produce on earth, and it is sowing time again. TIME Correspondent Frank Merrick last week visited Erv Walters' farm in northern Illinois. His report...
...inevitable." Yet there have been more explosive campus confrontations without gunfire. As Vaclav Koutnik, a professor from Czechoslovakia visiting Kent State, wryly told one of Michener's researchers: "Russia took over my whole country without killing one student. Your soldiers couldn't take over a Plot of grass." It is not enough for Michener to describe the shooting as "an accident, deplorable and tragic." Triggers were not pulled accidentally, either at My Lai or at Kent State...
Dope-smokers have long argued that the only harmful aspect of marihuana use is the possibility of being busted. Grinspoon agrees, and Marihuana Reconsidered makes a strong case for the legalization of marihuana. Grinspoon argues that grass should be legally available to people over 18 years old in cigarettes of controlled potency. No attempt is made to contend that marihuana is actually beneficial. . Rather, the argument for legalization is based on Grinspoon's conclusion that cannabis is-both psychologically and physiologically-less dangerous than alcohol or tobacco...
Impetuosity, winner of the Blue Grass Stakes (many Blue Grass winners have gone on to win the Derby) has drawn the outside post position, and should he win, it could be considered a minor miracle. His stable mate. Twist the Axe, who ran second in the Blue Grass, is well placed in the middle of the field and his running style, rushing from behind in the last part of the race, is well suited to the Derby distance...