Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Isapwo Muksika Crowfoot (?-1890), Blackfoot chief: "What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset...
Obsessed with statistics and blueprints, city planners and rebuilders forget to find out what the people whom they transplant by the blockful really want. Author Jacobs quotes a tenant from a Manhattan housing project set in the customary grassed areas dear to all rebuilders: "They threw our homes down and pushed us here and pushed our friends somewhere else. We don't have a place to get a cup of coffee or a paper even, or borrow 50? . . . But the big men come and look at that grass and say, 'Isn't that wonderful! Now the poor...
Contending that he was presenting grass-roots sentiment in Texas, the arch-conservative publisher read: "We need a man on horseback to lead this nation and many people in Texas and the Southwest think that you are riding Caroline's tricycle. The American people are aroused and rightly so. They are, as a body, way ahead of Washington. If you don't believe this, read the letters from readers' columns in most United States newspapers. The general opinion of the grass-roots thinking in this country is that you and your Administration are weak sisters...
...problem facing the National Education Association's representatives in Washingotn is the strengthing of the "grass roots" support for the bill, said McCaskill. "Lobbying has got to reach down to the personal constituents of the members of Congress if it is going to be effective...
...Paul Hornung played his first regular football game as a sixth-grader at Louisville's St. Patrick's School. Awarded an athletic scholarship to Notre Dame, Hornung quickly caught the eye of canny Coach Frank Leahy. "He runs like a mower going through grass," marveled Leahy. "And his kicking-why, when he reported to me as a freshman, he could punt 80 yds. and place-kick over the crossbar from...