Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Without Nelson Rockefeller to kick around any more, Reagan has lost a major selling point. But he scarcely seemed deterred, saying of Rocky's dropping out: "I am not appeased." Though Ford is in command of most of the Republican Party apparatus, Reagan has undeniable grass-roots appeal. Admits one of the President's campaign chiefs: "Jerry doesn't excite Republican conservatives, and they're the ones who will work day and night. Reagan can excite them...
...think party leadership is so important this year. Look at all these primaries. What's going to happen if someone beats an incumbent President in these primaries? What are the voters going to think? The President has all the machinery, but I'd be happy with the grass roots. If I decide to run, maybe there's a little David and Goliath to this thing...
Today the resort that Post named Tres Vidas en la Playa (translation: "three lives on the beach") is slowly reverting to the thicket it once was. On once velvety golf links, cattle nibble at the patches of imported English grass that have survived months of neglect. Rows of expensive golf carts sit rusting in the salt spray from the nearby Pacific. The Olympic and villa pools, long stagnant, are covered with algae-green slime. Outside the compound's wrought-iron gates, striking waiters, maids and maintenance men-who have been picketing since July under a red and black strike...
...downfall of Tres Vidas. By 1974 Braniff had converted Post's dream into an open resort, and was making an all-out bid for middleclass tourists. But they too stayed away, preferring the Las Vegas glitter of Acapulco to the solitude, the skeet shooting and the English grass 20 miles distant...
...wrote Emerson, "only biography." To reconstruct the New Mexican frontier of the 1860s, Horgan concentrates on Lamy. In the novel, the bishop experienced a constant inner joy: "He always awoke a young man ... One could breathe that [air] only on the bright edges of the world, on the great grass plains or the sagebrush desert." Horgan testifies to Lamy's love of Western saddle life, but concedes a sadder truth: "If he had any capacity to express exalted feeling, he left no record...