Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certain assumptions about the Khmer Rouge that in retrospect, were illusory. Because the Khmer Rouge had ties with the Republic of China, it was assumed that the Khmer Rouge's policies and social programs would have affinities with Maoism. It was assumed that while the NLF was working at grass roots campaigns to reform land use and to set up village councils, the Khmer Rouge was working on similar projects in their own country. But most important of all, it was assumed that because the Khmer Rouge fought against the forces of Lon Nol's regime and stood up against...
...MASSIVE hostility to the PCP which erupted this summer does, not derive from its radical ideology or policies but from its seizure of disproportionate political power. With neither electoral strength nor major grass-roots support, PCP influence has come through acquisition of high positions in the army, state bureaucracy and municipal government. In the North this strategy has run aground, where appointed Communist village officials serve as targets for peasant fears about Communist power and the revolution in general. The PCP's anti-democratic policies have mobilized peasant communities, once sympathetic to the revolution, against it under right-wing Catholic...
...intelligent discussion of issues and ideas can be conducted in Washington and beamed out effectively to any corner of this nation. For all the talk of getting back to the grass roots to find out what is really going on, there is little chance that a President or a serious candidate can learn very much by his thunderous hopping from airport to airport, surrounded by security forces and staff members. A President who wants to know the true national sentiment can learn it with an open mind and a genuine desire to know...
...magnificent sum of $8 a week. Well, I went to Rubery Owen as a spot welder and became involved with the union. The people in the department must have seen something in me they wanted, 'cause they elected me shop steward, as green as the grass...
False Hysterics. The problem is that there is nothing intrinsically funny about widowhood, grass or otherwise, and it is a mistake to try to create big boffs, broad running jokes out of these conditions. Silly, honest, human errors occur when someone is trying to make a new life, and it should be possible to make gentle rueful human comedy out of the attempt to muddle through. But Phyllis is paced and played as if it were a zany farce. Fay is hobbled by an ex-husband whose profession is surely borscht-belt comedy. It is impossible to understand...