Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bruce in the film Lenny may just earn her an Academy Award nomination. Perrine has already gone into training to become Hollywood's newest sex symbol. "I've experimented with almost every drug known to man," she told Klemesrud. "But now I don't even smoke grass. It gives me the munchies, and I can't afford...
...VOTING FOR CARAMANLIS. Up above, every room in the hotel facing the square was filled with parties of wealthy Greeks waiting with champagne. The crowd, well over 200,000 this time, was older, dressed in furs and Paris fashions; the scents were not of garlic and grass but of Chanel and Givenchy. Many carried candles to light as they had done when Caraman lis returned to Greece last summer...
Such gentle prodding could easily turn into tougher tugging if the ratification process continues to stumble slowly along. Certainly, a rank-and-file rejection of the contract--the first such grass-roots referendum ever in an autocratic union that has had the likes of John L. Lewis and W.A. (Tony) Boyle as its advocates--might prod Ford to choose his option of an 80-day, back-to-work, cooling-off period under Taft-Hartley instead of beginning the complex negotiation and ratification cycle again. Whether the miners--a group of workers who, by virtue of the very interdependent nature...
Australia's war against the dingo has sharply reduced sheep losses-and the population of the wild dog. But further gains may well be a Pyrrhic victory. A still incomplete, decade-long government study has already concluded that the dingo preys heavily on rabbits, wallabies and other grass-eating animals. If the dingo-becomes extinct, the herbivores will proliferate and compete more vigorously with Australia's sheep for pasturage. The result would be a far more serious threat to the sheep than is now posed by the dingoes themselves. Indeed, viewed with an ecologist...
...produced by the reaction of external events on instincts, and his instincts are peasant instincts. In the middle of a pitched battle between the collaborators and members of the maquis holed out in a farm-house, Lucien catches sight of the ripple of a hare darting through the high grass and instantly turns to fire at it. The first thing he does after shooting the German officer who has come to take France and her grandmother away to a concentration camp is to steal a gold watch from the dead man--a watch the German had stopped Lucien himself from...