Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cool it.' That was Malcolm X. We have no such leaders now. Whitey doesn't understand this. Some little Negro pork chop preacher who is hustling pot and girls in a storefront church goes to city hall and gets all sorts of promises. That's not grass-roots leadership, but Whitey thinks he's dealing with responsible Negroes...
Working from scale drawings and with the aid of the scaffolder, the artist finished his masterwork in just 2½ days. The result: a 50-ft. by 60-ft. bucolic semiabstract that shows 36-ft.-high green grass growing, a blue sky, a white cloud and a red and yellow towerlike structure. There is also an arrow pointing topside-in case anyone needs to know which...
When construction is completed next June, there will be no cars at all on the road between the northwest corner of the Yard and the fire station at Broadway and Cambridge St. The former roadway will be landscaped with grass, trees and shrubs; new sidewalks will connect the Yard with Lowell Lecture Hall, the Law School, and other University buildings in the "north campus." The project's total cost to Harvard will be about $3 million--$2.8 million for construction and the rest for administrative expenses and landscaping...
...chubby California housewife, "Jillie Bean," as friends call her, is the No. 1-ranked woman player in the world -but at home last year she had to share the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association's No. 1 ranking with Texas' Nancy Richey, who had never won a major grass-court tournament. Billie Jean had. Last year at Wimbledon, she beat Australia's Margaret Smith and Brazil's Maria Bueno to give the U.S. its first All-England ladies' singles title in four years. Afterward, Martin Tressel, then president of the U.S.L.T.A., stated publicly that...
...problems all but preclude Patriots' exhibition play from Fenway Park, their season home. Temporary seating would have to be provided for 11,000 extra football spectators in less than twenty-four hours (due to the Red Sox baseball schedule). Also, football play would leave the Fenway grass in poor condition for baseball, in the midst of the Sox season...