Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much more comprehensive solutions and programs than those of President Johnson are needed, Harrington said. First of all, he said, the government must realize that the "War" will be "won or lost in Washington D.C., not with a grass roots movement." Secondly, the public sector must be extended, primarily because the private sector is not generating jobs. Finally, he said, "we must begin to redistribute the wealth of this country" by "having social planning on a national level for decent purposes...
...country's new strongman, goateed General Nguyen Khanh, took the occasion to make a second grass-roots tour, this one to mountainous central Viet Nam. At a village of montagnard tribesmen, Khanh let his feet be ceremonially washed in rice wine and buffalo blood. At a bleak infantry fort guarding the Laotian frontier, Khanh trotted out three sparsely clad Saigon cabaret cuties to put on a show, then announced an even greater morale booster-a 20% pay raise for privates and corporals...
...grave once or twice a week. It is marked with a small cross cut into a simple granite plaque, which carries the man's name and the dates of his first and last days on earth. The bare cedars quake on wintry, windy Texas days, and the grass is brown and forlorn. Here and there a leaf flutters and a sudden swarm of starlings lights in a tree for a moment, only to take off like a cloud in the bleak sky. And on the grave are a pot of withered chrysanthemums, some carnations and nine sprays of pretty...
...folksy style pleasantly surprised U.S. advisers, who have long urged grass-roots politicking on government leaders. Next day Khanh flew to address troops at guerrilla-beleaguered Ben Cat, 27 miles north of Saigon. "We cannot win the war by staying in Saigon," he said. "It is the countryside where the majority of the people live, people who need help, protection and security." At a village market, he questioned startled peasants about their health, housing and work. With flashbulbs popping, he handed out candy to squealing small fry, wisecracked: "A few more months of this and I will be ready...
...skiff with an expert guide like Florida's George Hommel to spot the fish and patiently explain the technique. "You cast ahead of the fish, in the direction he's moving," says Hommel. "You try to get six to ten feet in front of him. In the grass flats, you let the lure drift, and hope he'll pick it up. In the rocky bottoms, you twitch it a little to catch his attention, because he's going by sight rather than by smell. But if a bonefish wants the bait, he won't nose...