Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your story incorrectly stated: "Despite signs of growing grass-roots support for tougher gun laws, Americans will apparently have to settle for the President's proposed ban on 'Saturday night specials,' an idea even the N.R.A. endorses...
...blue sedan is parked on the inside shoulder of the eastbound lane of the Ohio turnpike. The driver makes lusty love to a red-shirted girl lying on a blanket on the median strip. Lush-Ohio grass, bent about a subtle flex of asphalt, spinning through the onrush of high-revving machines, hollowed to catch the sky's seed, pulls through their pressing embrace. Coupled in time and stasis, the lovers arch to the Indianapolis sounds of the cars, rising and fading in perpetually lost motions...
...long-established Greek-American institutions have provided vital grass-roots support, stimulating the mail campaigns. One is the Greek Orthodox Church, headed in the U.S. by Archbishop lakovos, who set up 50 state committees after the Turkish invasion to raise money for Greek-Cypriot refugees (collections so far: $1.3 million) and to urge letters to Congressmen. Iakovos has personally pressed the issue with President Ford, Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy and Democratic Presidential Contenders Henry Jackson and Lloyd Bentsen. The other is AHEPA (American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association), the Greek-American fraternal order, which has 400 chapters and about...
...when she was imprisoned without trial for her efforts in the "Quit India" campaign to drive out the British, Narayan became a national hero-and one of the British Raj's most wanted criminals-for his sabotage work in the independence movement. Now Narayan was leading a grass-roots movement against corruption, a movement that seriously threatened Mrs. Gandhi's hold on her office and perhaps the stability of Indian society...
Lafayette Number One is one of the old cemeteries in New Orleans-some of the wounds on the gravestones are in French-but most people these days are buried in huge stretch of contiguous cemeteries near the city limits where the graves are granite covered with neatly trimmed grass. There is no white plaster that cracks and marks your hands, and no vines that insinuate themselves around the stone and grass. Everything, in short, is as it should...