Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soon the bells at Memorial Church were tolling, and the flag at University Hall was at half-mast. A Student stood on the grass in the Yard, pounding a tree softly with his fist...
...Philippine Senate, where, he complains, the twelve Nacionalista Senators have thwarted his ambitious programs for land reform, industrialization and control of inflation. Wearing his traditional baseball cap with its presidential insignia, and clad in a white barong tagalog (a light, loose-sleeved shirt), Macapa gal stumped the grass roots explaining his aims of "making capitalists out of workers...
...psychiatrist who knew the lingo could make a million at the track. Some race horses love mud; others sulk if they get their hooves wet. All horses are brought up on grass, but that does not mean they can run on it. Nobody knows why, or ever will-unless he can talk to horses...
...charging off to New Hampshire, where he planned a slam-bang handshaking tour to kick off his campaign. It was raining buckets that day, but Rocky plodded gamely on, sometimes through ankle-deep mud. Despite the storm, he found hundreds of hands to shake. And he played the grass-roots campaigner to the hilt. In Milford he sipped a chocolate soda in a drugstore. In Nashua he visited a Methodist church, and devoured a steak in a restaurant while a crowd stood outside in the rain and peered at him through the window. In Manchester he bought a pair...
...when Philips tried the album-calling it The Singing Nun-in the U.S. last summer, it went nowhere. Philips then tried an old sales stimulus, taking two songs from it and putting out a 45-r.p.m. single. One side is called Dominique, and it has taken off like a grass fire. U.S. teen-agers are mad for the singing nun, even though Dominique is in French, and few are aware that the song lauds the virtues of the founder of the Dominican order. More than 400,000 have sold in three weeks, and the full Singing Nun album, thus primed...