Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the experts and the figures so unequivocally in agreement, why is it that neither Congress nor the Administration can harmonize? "It's like a bunch of people walking around in high elephant grass," says one Treasury official. They were in brief sight of one another last month at the height of the gold crisis. Sobered by the threat to the dollar, Congress seemed to be less hostile to the notion of raising taxes in an election year; the Senate went so far as to attach a 10% income-tax surcharge to another revenue measure-together with a stiff...
More Americans than ever are turning on with marijuana. Most of them are under 21, but an astonishing number of respectable adult citizens are also using "sticks" or "joints" or "grass." Obviously no one knows the total, since possession of a single cigarette is a crime. But Commissioner James L. Goddard of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cites estimates that as many as 20 million Americans may have used marijuana at one time, while 400,000 some say as many as 3,000,000-may now be smoking it regularly...
...general direction of Dalton Jones and third base, as custom dictates. Unfortunately, Jones was busy in the short-stop hole, retrieving the bat which had flown from the fanning Oyler's hands. Howard's throw flew unchallenged into Carl Yastrzemski's pasture where it died on the soggy grass. Yaz started in, stopped, wagged his head both in shame and disgust, and elected to ignore the ball. And, that, shockingly and painfully, was the tone of a sad home opener--Boston looked like the Mets, or, worse, like Red Sox teams of the first half of this decade...
Although they practice on Brookline's famous Country Club, the team rarely gets to play on courses of equal caliber. Last week they went out against Amherst and Tufts on a course that had more grass on the parking lot than on the greens...
Occasionally the team meets good courses at the Eastern championships and the North Eastern Intercollegiates, but that is late in the season when even Harvard Yard has grass...