Word: grass
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Other European countries are afflicted by violent radicals, notably Italy. But somehow national stereotyping makes a certain amount of disorder seem less remarkable in Italy than in Germany. The dictum is that Germans, with their Ordnungsliebe, could not make a revolution because they refuse to walk on the grass. Today, West German police estimate that there are no more than 50 committed terrorists-abetted by perhaps 2,000 active sympathizers-in a population of more than 61 million. Despite the massive, nationwide man hunt for the killers of kidnaped Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer, the terrorists have not yet given...
...Student Richard Stellar (his real last name, he insists), reports that orders are now coming in at the rate of 25 to 50 a day. The most sought after extraterrestrial neighborhood is the planet Vulcan, popularized by Star Trek's Mr. Spock. "We're only at the grass-roots beginning," proclaims Stellar...
...defensive about it, and we'd like to see things stay the same. Most thinking people realize that economic development is necessary?you have to have a job to live. But we want change to come in a way that preserves the natural flavor, not necessarily every blade of grass or every weed, but the natural flavor. There are those who argue, 'Now that we're here, let's close the door. Put up a fence, keep the rest out?all those other guys.' But we just can't do that...
...works, how it happens. I saw that the people who were getting things done weren't the loudest. The women who were more effective were very quietly coming round to people to get their support." Now, adds Bailey, an ardent, pro-plan feminist, "we are coming back to the grass-roots level, and we are going to say to our elected officials that unless you listen to our demands, we are going to get you out of office...
...rights, was not on the original agenda for Houston, but under the rules any subject had to be considered if ten or more state conventions asked for it. The demand for a lesbian rights provision came thundering down from no fewer than 36 state conventions. "It was obviously a grass-roots movement," says Lenore McNeer, who chaired the Vermont delegation and was one of the delegates who felt that lesbian rights is a civil liberties issue inappropriate to the agenda of a women's rights convention. But in the interest of unity, the less radical women persuaded themselves...