Word: weede
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want 'ups' and 'ups' and 'ups.' " Even Snoopy-whom Short sees as a kind of Christ figure, a hound of heaven alternately threatening to run away with Linus' blanket and offering to Charlie Brown a tail-wagging friendship-is obsessed with a "weed-claustrophobia" that makes him a less than desirable outfielder, a fallible catcher...
...backfiring truck threw cops into a panic. At the climax of the demonstration, an explosion-a real one-resounded on the water side of the sleek, glass-skinned building as a 9-lb. shell splashed into the East River just 200 yds. away. In a weed-strewn lot on the opposite bank, 900 yds. away, police later found a 3.5-in. Army bazooka, still aimed at the U.N., with a Cuban flag taped on the barrel...
...afternoon turns cold, Neddy tires, and beyond the difficult portage of Route 424 he begins to see odd un-familiarities that are not on his mental map. The lawns of friends are weed-grown; for-sale signs appear. There is another pool party, but the hostess, who is a social inferior, snubs him. Someone offers a word of sympathy for Neddy's financial troubles, and Neddy, vaguely uneasy, cannot recall that he has any. Chilled, and more tired than seems reasonable, he doggedly swims the last leg of his trip and hurries home to his wife and four tennis...
...Those students were admitted on the basis of grades and test scores, and they will pass or fail on the same basis. The student does not "demand facts, facts, facts." His instructor demands them, neatly played back from a term's subject matter. Let the deans weed their own gardens before looking across the fence...
Council leaders believe that the bishops have had enough time to impress their flocks back home with set speeches. This fall, prelates must submit copies of their talks five days ahead of time, thereby allowing the four council moderators to weed out repetitions. More over, six of the schemata - on the Eastern churches, missionary activity, priests, seminaries, schools, and the religious - will be put to the bishops as take-it-or-leave-it propositions without debate...