Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season, ran a splendid 9:28.9 in the two-mile to finish second to John Morrison, who set a Yale and Coxe Cage record of 9:26.3. Benjamin had not been able to run at all until ten days ago, when he began to work out on grass. Competing with virtually no practice, he battled Morrison down to the last laps...
Legendary Grandfather. In 1815 Europeans began penetrating the thick forests of Guinea, which was to give its name to a coin of purest gold, a kind of grass, and a species of hen. Among them was a young Frenchman named René Caillé, who, dressed as an Arab, talked of his captivity by the Egyptians, was accepted as a Moslem and was able to make his famed journey safely to Timbuktu. After him other Frenchmen came, and eventually, by the "rules of the game,"*laid down by the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 for spreading civilization throughout darkest Africa...
With the chiefs out of the way, he set up more than 4,000 village councils, elected by universal suffrage. This grass-roots democracy was something new to French Africa, and in the hidebound Moslem region of Fouta Djallon even some women got elected. "The election of women, griots and former slaves," declared Touré expansively, "is the mark of a veritable prize of political conscience, a spiritual revolution...
...developed that we had come at a bad moment. The Coke company had just warned the strikers to "keep moving" and had sent for a policeman to keep the picketers off the grass around the building. In retaliation, the union had countered by refusing to allow employees to go home in yellow Coke trucks. "It's this kind of thing that causes violence," the local president warned...
...World War I, though he was noted more for praising the Lord than passing the ammunition, and he tirelessly organized seminars and study groups for the soldiers. Later, Urbani became top national ecclesiastical adviser to the Catholic Action movement, traveled all over Italy organizing parish priests in a grass-roots light against Communism. In 1955 he was made Bishop of Verona, with the personal title of archbishop...