Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another problem is that ACCION, apolitical and even without foreign policy goals like the Peace Corps, is often at loggerheads with the anti-American majority in Venezuela, particularly at the grass-roots level. Then too, as a private organization, ACCION must rely wholly on foundations and corporations for funds. This is sometimes impossible, since ACCION's chief work involves changing community attitudes...
...feel that the men at the grass roots of this country know better than anyone else who is a Communist and who is not. They will be the judges of who should participate, and I have faith in their judgment. As for the Buddhists, we will try to inform all the faithful of the danger of such elements...
...uneasy 1950s it was the easy Rome of la dolce vita. Today, it is London, a city steeped in tradition, seized by change, liberated by affluence, graced by daffodils and anemones, so green with parks and squares that, as the saying goes, you can walk across it on the grass. In a decade dominated by youth, London has burst into bloom. It swings; it is the scene...
...went on with the grim and grinding task of preserving the nation on the battlefields. For six days the reconnaissance helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division (airmobile) hummed over mountaintops, darted down the alleys of valleys, recklessly trying to draw fire-which would pinpoint an enemy in the elephant grass below. It was familiar terrain: the Chu Pong massif and Ia Drang valley in the western highlands near Cambodia, the "Valley of Death," where the division last fall had fought the bloodiest battle of the war. Chu Pong was a perfect place to hit the enemy off-balance...
...these poems, as in Grass's novels, irony comes tinged with terror, and terror reflects a tenderness for all things that live enshelled in illusion, controlled by forces they cannot control. At times he intones a still sad music of aimless modernity...