Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...garden bathroom, which has one glass wall. For some degree of privacy, the garden or patio outside is surrounded by a wall or hedge, is usually accessible only through the bathroom. Thus, while shaving or showering, the occupant can sunbathe, sing with the birds and watch the grass grow. Says one dismayed Los Angeles matron: "Using a bathroom like that is like being caught out in the middle of a prairie...
Americans on the move to new communities today tend to take their faiths with them, but they switch them easily under a variety of influences. This may betoken the decline of Protestantism, or it may be a kind of built-in unity movement on the grass-roots level. For if U.S. Protestants think of themselves as Presbyterians or Methodists, they tend more and more to pick their churches because they are within walking distance, or because their friends go there, or because they like the preacher-all too few care passionately about doctrinal differences between the limestone church with stained...
...slatternly flutter of wings, the voice of hypocrite coo, the unspeakable filth-such are the marks of the city pigeon, that most evil and cunning of birds. Fully a generation ago, a sentient woman, the Sappho of her age, sounded the alarm: "Pigeons on the grass, alas!" Yet, despite this warning, the era of appeasement of these feathered spongers has continued...
...evening, and can spot, swoop and pluck without so much as a change in stride or loss of one of the 50,000 seeds. The second major type abhors garden work of all kinds, but when forced, kneels and begins working his way along the train of crab grass with such insatiable preoccupation that he soon disappears down the block, leaving behind a trail of bald spots...
...some suburbanites' horror, there are also many householders who simply no longer care about crab grass. It is green, after all, and it chokes out the less hardy weeds; moreover, it scarcely stands out in a well-mowed lawn. These people do not even mind that crab grass turns an unsightly brown with the first frost. At backyard cocktail parties, they move off in disdainful clusters to talk about Cuba or Kennedy's war on expense accounts while the antis exchange pointed views on calcium arsenate...