Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through three turbulent decades of labor history, Big Bill Hutcheson has been as unchanging a symbol of U.S. labor as the claw-hammer and the cross-cut saw. Through old and New Deal, his faith in old grass-roots Republicanism never wavered, and his ruthless dictatorship over the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America never faltered...
When we are dead, some Hunting-boy will pass And find a stone half-hidden in tall grass And grey with age: but having seen that stone (Which was your image), ride more slowly...
...across a desk from General Dwight Eisenhower and spoke some unsentimental facts. Said he: "I believe you have the qualities that can hold the Republican Party and the country together. But if you think there's going to be an Eisenhower draft at the convention coming from the grass roots, you're very much mistaken. The men who make up the delegations are professional politicians, and the one thing they dislike is to be made ridiculous. If you're willing to accept the nomination, you've got to say so in advance so an organization...
...organized Protestant drive to block the appointment of an ambassador to the Vatican was getting into high gear. Items last week: ¶ In Atlanta, the general board of the National Council of Churches (29 Protestant and Eastern Orthodox religious groups) named a six-man committee to help channel grass-roots opposition, make sure it reaches the ears of Congress.* ¶ On the West Coast, Author Paul (American Freedom and Catholic Power) Blanshard was in the midst of a nationwide tour with a party of speakers representing a militant organization with the nonstop name, Protestants and Other Americans United...
...emerald's 'grass-lamp glow' is better...