Word: grass
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John Brode's hard work at forging a left coalition, the Grass Roots Organization (GRO), will probably not net him the votes he so richly deserves. (Except for incumbent City Councilwoman Saundra Graham, the GRO slate candidates for Council stand slim chances against the money of the old-line politicians.) The same is true of the guiding hand behind the formation of the Common Slate, which ran five candidates two years ago. David Wylie stands perhaps the best chance of the outsiders, and a strong youth/left vote could conceivably bring real new blood to the Council, but odds are long...
Peaceful Life. Unlike Stone Age hunters and gatherers elsewhere, the Illinois dwellers were not nomads; they lived in relatively permanent homes made of logs, twigs and grass. The diggers have found no evidence of warfare until a few hundred years before the establishment of agriculture in A.D. 800. It was during this period that the population began to grow noticeably, probably increasing the competition for the available food supply...
...play on a long field with long grass here in Cambridge so our passes were going long for a while," Getchell said after the game...
...fact is that I'm not that fond of baseball, and it's especially deadly on television. But I do believe in The Park, green grass, hot seats, warm beer. I just like to go out and get juiced. And I'm no fanatic, so I tend towards the unconventional in my allegiances. I follow the Phillies, because they're always on the verge; they walk that border line between talent and good-natured ineptitude...
Over the summer, the Grass Roots Movement (GRO), following the example of these cities, worked out a novel strategy for stopping the developers. GRO held public meetings resulting in a proposed amendment to the Cambridge City Zoning Ordinance. Signatures are now being collected to put this amendment on the ballot in November as an initiative petition. This petition, for the first time, will give the public the decisive voice over all future real estate development...