Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some 150 New York City birders, the search centered on Long Island's Jamaica Bay, where the stealthier spotters bellied through the wet marsh grass as if sneaking up on a machine-gun nest. Though they found a number of rare birds, they were disappointed at total counts, which were as small as 100 species. And in Illinois, 50 members of the Champaign County Audubon Society slogged through mud and rain, uphill and down, for views of herons and chimney swifts, wood ducks and Blackburnian warblers-and a day's total...
Brown and his men were so close to the enemy that one member of the patrol who was trying to snatch some sleep had to be awakened lest his soft snoring give them away. "As I hid in the grass, two Shakespeare quotations buzzed through my head," recalled Mannock, faithful to his Oxford education. "The first was 'Cowards die many times before their deaths.' The other, as the night dragged interminably, was the Dauphin sighing, 'Will it never...
Simultaneously, he took his crusade to the people. Addressing the American Mothers' Committee convention in Manhattan, he implored: "When you go back to your own communities, let your radio stations know that you are behind this campaign. Your support at the grass-roots level will go a very long way toward arresting the cancerous growth of that irresponsible minority in the record and music industry which unconscionably countenances subtle or downright salacious lyrics." McLendon carefully limited his attack to that "irresponsible minority," mainly British rock singers such as the Rolling Stones. "I must take a stand," he said...
...Grass-Roots Crusade. Having heard enough, McLendon directed all his radio stations (from Philadelphia to San Francisco) to quit playing songs that "offend public morals, dignity or taste." And just to make sure that certain kinds of recorded numbers would not get past his disk jockeys, McLendon announced that henceforth his stations would refuse any new record release "unless it is accompanied by a valid lyric sheet...
Where I train in Texas there's a lot of smoking of grass because it's close to the border and so easy to get. The Airborne paratroopers, especially the ones who have been to Vietnam and are coming back for their medic training, are all potheads because in Vietnam the stuff grows wild and free and you can sit around your camp fire in the Mekong Delta and they say you can just reach out and put up a handful of hemp leaves and throw them on the fire. They also tell me there's a terrific black market...