Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help in last week's fighting, touched off when a teen-age Lumpa was thrashed by his uncle, a Kaunda man, for playing hooky from school. In the early battles, angry Lumpas reportedly speared 50 of Kaunda's followers, then herded 150 women and children into their grass huts and burned them alive. A day later, the rampaging Lumpas, springing from the tall elephant grass, ambushed a police detachment and killed its British officer...
...Cleveland, children are taught the intricate business of tying shoelaces and are shown where worms go under the grass. And in New York, some 6,300 children attend 85 centers at a weekly cost to parents of anywhere from $1 to $22.75, depending upon need. The Manhattan program, acknowledged to be the best in the nation, has a waiting list jammed with more than 5,000 applicants. And beyond that, maintains Department of Welfare Day-Care Director Catherine O'Connell, there is no way of knowing how many children in New York are being locked in their homes...
...track as if the championship depended on it, touching 155 m.p.h. on the straight. Power-sliding through one glassy corner in full opposite lock (with the front wheels turned against the direction of the turn), Clark nonchalantly flashed a thumb-up victory sign to a friend on the infield grass. "My God," breathed a mechanic in the Lotus pit as Clark cut huge chunks out of Surtees' lead: 5 sec. on the fifth lap, 7 sec. on the sixth...
What helped clinch it for Goldwater was the fact that a strong conservative tide was running in the U.S., fed by a deep disquiet at the grass roots over the role of an ever-expanding Government. Goldwater and the tide came to gether, and the one could not have succeeded without the other. Between them, they submerged the moderate wing of the G.O.P...
...supporters are convinced that he can win in November. "In my own state, we have thousands of people who haven't been voting," says Dr. Durward Hall, chairman of Missouri's delegation to the G.O.P. Convention. "They'll vote this time. There is a great grass-roots uprising against the Republican me-too-ers and non-constitutionalists and one-worlders and the foreign press. This fellow Goldwater will sweep the nation." According to some Goldwaterites, the bulk of the 39 million Americans who failed to vote in 1960 were not lower income citizens who would be Democratically...