Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...research team at Harvard beat chemists from Du Pont and Standard Oil in a Government competition to develop napalm. In the course of his research, Fieser found a perfectly good civilian use for the product: it made a fine crabgrass killer, burning away its seeds while leaving good grass roots untouched. During and after World War II, he received several letters of thanks for his invention, which soldiers claimed saves thousands of American lives in battle. No one ever complained to him about the use of napalm until Viet...
Though it works only with grass-roots organizations, the Cambridge Corporation has Establishment written all over. It has no grass-roots representatives on its board and is entirely dependent on the educational and industrial establishments for its financial backing. "We are very conscious of the fact that we were created out of the fabric of the establishment," Brooks says. "Because we recognize that, we have an obligation to achieve total community objectives rather than the self-interested objectives of any one of the concerns backing us." Brooks admits that the Corporation will always be treated with suspicion by the people...
...brought down Wagnerian thunder on his head by advising Germans to give up their favorite dream, reunification. Now in this slim, blunt: volume-a bestseller in Germany-he has put all the unpleasant reminders together. The result is a remarkable attempt at national selfcriticism. Only Günter Grass-described by Jaspers as "our one political writer who cannot be praised highly enough"-has stabbed harder at the German conscience...
...line of G.I.s snakes cautiously through the underbrush. The sudden chatter of a machine gun sends them scrambling for cover, and for several long tense minutes there is a furious exchange of small-arms fire. Then, just as suddenly, all is quiet, and out there in the elephant grass a young recruit lies twisted in the grotesque posture of death. He had been with the company for a month, someone recalls, but sadly, no one can remember his name. Says one G.I.: "He had freckles ... I think...
...days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it, and it is gone . . . But the steadfast lore of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting...