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Word: grasses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of the time. Drinking is socially expected in the world prep school was aiming for while drugs were for hippies. (Of course if prep school administrators knew what the jocks at Harvard did on Saturday night or peeked into a fraternity party at Amherst, they'd find grass is the new substitute for a hangover...

Author: By Evan Vaughan, | Title: Notes From the Prep School Underground: Drugs and Love Ethic at Exeter, Andover | 5/29/1968 | See Source »

...looking at him you could hear Portland and Nogales, Mexico." Occasionally, Barthelme gives in to his talent for slickness, as in Report, a tale of technology as mindless process. Among the accomplishments of his scientific elite: an artificial stomach that would enable the people of underdeveloped lands to eat grass, and a hut-shrinking chemical "which penetrates the fibres of the bamboo, causing it, the hut, to strangle its occupants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Social-Science Fiction | 5/24/1968 | See Source »

...Grass voluptuous in the river water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 10, 1968 | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...hope he is not referring to the Daily News. The News charges us with vandalism and alcoholism. (Actually we voted to bar both grass and liquor, and there was only one dissident, named Melvin.) One cartoon, titled "Dancing to the Red Tune," shows a beatnik and some sort of cave girl dancing as a band sings "Louse up the campuses, yeah, yeah, yeah...

Author: By Simon James, | Title: On the Steps of Low, Part II | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

WHILE many students are bustling around the nation with heady dreams of winning presidential contests for Kennedy, McCarthy, or Rockefeller, some are working successfully at the other end of the political spectrum: on the grass-roots level of ward politics. Peter A. Gagliardi '68, for example, recently won elections to the three-man school committee and to the ten-man Democratic town committee in Athol, Massachusetts. A more striking case, however, was the Democratic ward committee election that occurred in Cambridge last primary day, April 29. Four college students, one of them a Harvard senior, headed a 12-member slate...

Author: By Boisfeuill JONES Jr., | Title: The First Hurrah | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

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