Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...snake that striketh at the jeet of the hunter is naught but a pain in the grass...
...really, they were too futile to be scary. As most people left the Common, they gathered in mini-rallies all over the grass. The TV men turned their klieg lights on them and they cavorted with gusto for the cameras, led in chants by their cheer-leaders...
...citizens' committee. In California, Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh is serving as honorary co-chairman of the Humphrey campaign, but amazingly enough, is also endorsing a write-in effort in behalf of McCarthy. The effort is sponsored by the strongly antiwar California Democratic Council, the nation's largest grass-roots political organization, and Unruh needs the group's support if he hopes to run for Governor...
Without sumo wrestling, there might be no Japan. According to legend, the Japanese won their homeland in a sumo match between a Shinto god named Takemikazuchi and an aborigine. Takemikazuchi "crushed his opponent like grass" and thus took the deed to the Land of the Rising...
...this activity has had the active encouragement of Sizer, but it remains a grass-roots effort without central coordination. The result has been a communication problem; with everybody doing his own thing, courses duplicate one another and often fail to fill the crucial gaps in the curriculum. The MAT summer study found the school very strong in the social sciences, but very weak in such areas as the study of teaching methods. Almost all the new courses fall into the category of social science...