Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shcharansky trial has proved again that Henry Kissinger's detente was a stillborn child. Previous Administrations did what Christ warned against 2,000 years ago. Kissinger saw the Soviet wolf scrambling into a sheepskin and sat down to wait for it to eat grass...
Seizing on a story with, so to speak, grass-roots appeal, some metropolitan newspapers and broadcasters devoted more space and time to the cleanup issue last week, than they did to the terrorist attack at the Iraqi embassy in Paris or anything going on in Congress. The New York Post banner headlined a front-page story, CITY DOG OWNERS DOING THEIR DUTY. The Daily News ran daily features on "poopetrators," concluding in one headline, ON THE FIRST DOG DAY MORNING, CRIME IS DROPPING. The New York Times editorialized that it was "one of those delicate moments of social experiment when...
...special pleading. Some Senators have willingly lent their names and their office letterheads to big mail campaigns, conveying the false impression that the pleas are endorsed by the Senate. A House subcommittee headed by New York Congressman Benjamin Rosenthal has discovered that hundreds of corporations have been deducting their grass-roots lobbying efforts as a business expense despite clear congressional and IRS declarations that they may not do so. A few lobbyists seem to be in an unreasonable rush to cash in on the money available in the business. Two former aides of Senator Ribicoff tried to start their lobbying...
...flourishing ranch lands, California cattlemen are talking about making money this year, after losing nearly $900 million because of the drought and reducing their herds from 5 million head to 4 million. Says William Staiger of the Cattlemen's Association: "Last year there was no grass and no water. When the rains came, the damn grass sprouted all over the place. We can rebuild the herds in three years...
...little Irish group was discovering this hash, and we were into very sophisticated strings of long, comic invention because we were into this grass. And because our environment didn't sanction it, we were totally isolated with our experience and it was even more exciting creatively than...