Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Center will occupy a parking lot, the grounds of a wooden frame house and part of the new mall behind Memorial Hall. The section of the mall actually over the Kirkland Street Under-pass will remain, but the rest of the grass is likely...
...Lincoln Memorial. Placards identified them as "Sisters of Watts" and "Concerned Citizens from Slippery Rock"; costumes identified them as Indians and Mexican-Americans, hippies and middle-class citizens of all shades. Young people waded thigh-deep in the Mall's giant reflecting pool, and families sprawled on the grass for picnics of fried chicken, chitlins and all manner of exotic salads. Even the numbing, five-hour drone of songs (four), speeches (19), and prayers (five) recalled another occasion...
...Hashish, a form of marijuana with an extremely high concentration of the hemp plant resin that gives a stick its kick, is more dangerous than the garden variety of "grass" generally available in the U.S. Pro-marijuana advocates admit this, but argue that legally available marijuana would lessen the appeal of hashish. The A.M.A.-N.R.C. report predicts that any relaxation of antimarijuana laws would encourage an even heavier illegal traffic in hashish, than that at present...
...with a thud, then prosper with a vengeance. His Astrodome, for example. Hailed as "the Eighth Wonder of the World," the air-conditioned stadium began with a clear plastic roof. Baseball players lost fly balls in the glare, so the dome was painted. Then sunlight could not reach the grass, which withered, so artificial turf was laid down. Now everybody is happy...
...mudder sleeps in pay toilets," grouses a guttural voice. The place could be nowhere but Manhattan, where a bunch of grass-puffing adult dropouts 'ive in communal squalor. But when a toucan with an exotic virus wings in he window, everyone suddenly breaks out in smiles...