Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the people who are thinking at all are overwhelmingly on the conservative side. I talked with a lot of workmen and many of them don't have views one way or the other. Certainly they are not concerned about the Taft-Hartley law . . . There is no grass-roots objection, it all comes from the top." After one meeting, Taft remarked: "I guess they don't hate me as much as they're supposed...
...city for the big Hanford Plutonium Works. Its 24,000 residents seemed to live in an atomic-age Utopia. With no effort from them, Government planning had methodically channeled the city's burgeoning population into neatly curving rows of comfortable frame houses. Sputtering Government sprinklers had drawn green grass from the arid Columbia River basin in defiance of the gritty desert winds from the Horse Heaven Hills...
...King's Men. The sensational rise & fall of a grass-roots demagogue, produced, directed and scripted by Robert Rossen (TIME...
...took at the facts. One month age, a "workman" started cutting the grass in the Eliot House courtyard at 8:15 a.m. setting up such a cacophony with his electric mower that further sleep was impossible. One week later at the very same hour, he was back with an electric leaf raker, with the same result. Seven days after that he was copping ice, not steadily and rhythmically so that one could get used to it, bur irregularly. Success in this third plot was so overwhelming that he came back the following week and REPEATED THE PERFORMANCE...
...Columbia), a movie version of Robert Penn Warren's 1947 Pulitzer Prizewinning novel, is a tabloid view of a power-mad politician who has set his heart on bossing the world. The best of recent Hollywood attempts to fuse studio and documentary styles, this slam-bang indictment of grass-roots demagoguery is full of punch and color: melodramatic shots of campaign barbecues, torchlight parades, legislative brawling and backroom political deals...