Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Scotch adage goes that a golfer should be aware of no more grass than will cover his own grave and taking the exhortation to heart, Vik decided to enroll in a transcendental meditation course to increase his concentration. "If I can be more well-rested and make fewer mistakes it should help my game," he says...
...dark sink of the dance room, the music blared on for no one's ears, and the last fetid gases that had inflated the party eased silently from the carcass and left it for dead at the top of K entry. "We had the booze, we had the grass and we had the music to go all night, and the place cleared out before 2--people at Harvard just don't know how to party," says John. Chris agrees: "When it comes to dissipation, we consider ourselves hard-core." The next party will be sometime...
...unions refused to join. Jack Jones, powerful boss of the huge (1.8 million members) Transport and General Workers Union, denounced those "enemies of the working class" whose disloyalty might topple Wilson and usher in the Tories. The Coventry election, moreover, underlined the distance between the Laborite left and the grass-roots workers it professes to represent. The voters have not clamored, as leftist leaders have, for heavy expenditures to end unemployment. Even with 1.25 million jobless, politicians have found that their constituents complain more about inflation than about unemployment. This could change when benefits, which last for a year, begin...
...junior who attended the event last May recalled it as having been "a really calm, really laid-back day, with lots of people just lying out on the grass, milling around on the drive, playing football and selling food and things...
...people, let's make movies!" And it isn't just a kick-line; the choreography is sophisticated enough to include a parody of the Busby-Berkeley extravaganza: the dancers break apart and whirl around in circles, then make several lines and wave their arms in the air like grass in the wind while the cymbals rise and fall like waves...