Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FRED ("Everyman") HARRIS, l.f. rookie: Just up from the triple-A Grass Roots League; fellow players joke that even away from the ball park, he's "out in left field;" has gotten into numerous disputes this spring over desire to throw fly balls into the stands; claims he does it to help "the little...
...Year's Day a new California law went into effect that sharply reduces the penalties for possession of marijuana. Now anyone caught with less than an ounce of grass will be given only a traffic ticket-type citation and a possible fine...
...demands a peculiar kind of precision from police officers, namely a certainty about how much grass makes an ounce. A Los Angeles importer says he has sold several thousand pocket-size scales from Hong Kong to various police departments. In Los Angeles, the scales will be standard patrol-car equipment. San Francisco police, however, are relying on the less scientific rule that an ounce of marijuana is the amount that can be cupped in both hands without spilling any. Sacramento sheriff's deputies judge an ounce by how much will fit into a plastic sandwich bag, a traditional dope...
...loans from the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. Eight new first-class hotels are pushing skyward all over Manila in preparation for a meeting of the International Monetary Fund in September. The benefits of all the economic gilding, however, have not yet trickled down to the Philippine grass roots...
...full of games and good spirits and tall tales. As the Pied Piper of Cairn Voel, his country retreat on the Cornwall coast, he used to lead his young followers on hunts for the ingredients of a special home brew-a concoction of stagnant water, mold, dead leaves, old grass and whatever other unsavories could be dredged up at the moment...