Word: scattered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could hardly fail to grow a bumper harvest of marijuana. The hal lucinogenic weed - which grows wild throughout America in every kind of soil - requires no plowing, fertilizing, harrowing, mulching, weeding, spraying or watering. To raise a crop of dreams, all the would-be "grass" farmer need do is scatter seed some time in the spring, then go off to a love-in for 60 to 80 days. When the female Cannabis sativa bears its resinous flowers, the farmer simply plucks the plant and dries the top portion in the sun, an oven, or - as one Chicagoan prefers...
...LIFE (Elektra). As the folk scene fades, the folk singers scatter. Judy Collins, one of the best, has not gone far afield to find this mixed bag of songs, some sentimental (including the title number, a sweetmeat from the Beatles), some revolutionary (Marat/Sade). Her songwriters include Leonard Cohen, a Canadian poet who makes good use of Collins' dark, low voice and powerful delivery; his Dress Rehearsal Rag is a five-minute saga of a has-been on "the long way down...
...Cool. The Fed's action was salve to the stock market. The Dow-Jones industrial average had already worried off 14 points from its Feb. 8 high of 861 for the year when the market met one of its all-too-familiar Mondays. Hit by a scatter shot of news about turndowns in steel, machine-tool and rail-equipment orders, the Dow-Jones plunged 10.69 points-its biggest drop in three months. When the Fed's easy-money move came at midweek, it helped power the market to a 4.12-point gain in a trading day so turbulent...
...begins, the good spirits of forest and stream, garden and hearth, head for the stars to report to the Emperor of Jade, thus leaving the world to the evil offices of fork-tongued devils and scaly trolls. In defense, the Vietnamese must plant apricot shoots outside his home, scatter lime powder around the yard and set off giant strings of firecrackers (which caused some combat-weary soldiers on leave in Saigon to dive for cover...
They dart and scatter...