Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson has proved one thing to everybody's satisfaction: he is an expert at doing things. Columnists and news magazines are still marveling at the vigor of the man who often works an 18-hour day, and who, in James Reston's words, "has done everything except cut the grass on the White House lawn...
...Jerald Brauer of the University of Chicago Divinity School argues that the movement appears impressive because of "an articulate minority talking at the top," but is "not as strong, relatively speaking, as it was five years ago." Conservatives claim that they represent about 70% of the nation's grass-roots Christians. As evidence of health, they point to the undiminished appeal of Billy Graham, the growth of such conservative groups as the National Association of Evangelicals (which claims to speak for 10 million Protestants), the spread of the movement within ecumenically oriented churches...
...Munich had carefully disassembled the gold and white interior decorations of its Cuvilliés Theater before the bombs fell, so that when it was rebuilt in 1958, all its ornaments and trappings were intact. But inside its shell, the Nationaltheater was a chaos of terra-cotta rubble where grass and trees had begun to sprout...
Take Kelso. In five years the great gelding has won 31 races and $1,581,702. But Kelso does not like grass. Last week he ran for the third time in the $150,000 Washington D.C. International over 1½ miles on the turf. And, for the third time, he finished second. The horse that beat him: Mrs. Marion duPont Scott's Mongo-a thoroughbred that likes grass better than dirt...
...president of Continental Airlines-Ethel Merman has two grown children, a son who is a student of drama at Carnegie Tech and a daughter who is married to an insurance man in Colorado Springs. She lives in Manhattan's Park Lane Hotel. As a sort of braided-grass widow, she is free to move and move she does. This winter she will be the headliner at London's huge, expensive Talk of the Town, a nightclub that is sort of a big, bustless Latin Quarter. She is lining up concert dates in Japan and Australia. Meanwhile...