Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago last week the 125-member General Board of the newly created National Council of Churches held its fourth bi-monthly meeting. Some of the board's decisions were purely administrative; others will be passed along to the National Council's 29 constituent denominations for action at grass-roots level. Highlights: ¶Approval of a program to bring religious training to young people by putting congregations and communities to work, instead of leaving it up to the present inadequate combination of Sunday schools and "released time" education. ¶The admission of the Greek Orthodox Church as the 30th...
...well-heeled Employer Coxey and his unemployed tatterdemalions set out for the capital to pressure Congress into accepting his economic cureall: interest-free local bond issues for public works and $500 million in greenbacks to be spent on wagon-road building. After getting arrested for walking on the Capitol grass (20 days in jail), he gave up for the time being but returned 50 years later to finish his speech...
...displayed, unabashed, a series of starkly non-objective canvases, she grew confused and silent. Then she brightened as she spotted a picture on the opposite wall: a simple drawing of a house, with a blue strip of sky at the top and a green strip of grass at the bottom. "Now that's very different," she said, relieved but yet unsure. "You have a sort of child-like style there, haven't you?" "My new did that," Goodwin told...
...Bear Grass (Nolina microcarpa which yields excellent broomstraw. The supply in southwestern New Mexico alone is estimated at about 1,000,000 tons. The market price...
...natural state, perhaps its only admirers were 75 Levantine camels, imported by Jefferson Davis, then U.S. Secretary of War, "for Army transportation and other military purposes." They preferred the "greasewood's" noisome leaves to the lushest grazing grass...