Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...came back shaking their heads about some of the punishment he meted out to inattentive ballplayers. Fitzsimmons said that on one occasion Knight told a boy who had not paid attention during one of his lectures to run a quarter of a mile to get a blade of grass. When the boy returned, Fitzsimmons said, Knight told him he had gotten the wrong blade and should go back into the woods and get another...
...were asked 'what surprised you the most in your trip,' "he said. "Well, we saw no dogs until Nixon gave two to the Peking Zoo. And we found no grass in Peking either...
...voted than ever-91.2% of those eligible, v. 55% in the U.S. election-and they split their preferences more than ever before. The neo-Nazi National Democratic Party, as well as the far-left parties, got only a fraction of 1% of the vote. As Novelist Günter Grass, who campaigned for Brandt, put it, the election proved that Germans had overcome the scars of the Nazi past, which made them afraid to identify too closely with any political party, and showed that they understand democracy as a "way of life" rather than a "formal superstructure...
...short verses supposedly written by an almost certainly mythical sage named Lao Han or Lao Tsu about 2,500 years ago. This title means "The Classic of the Power of the Way." According to the jacket of this edition, an overfancy one gussied up with photographs (fog, snow, twigs, grass) and Chinese calligraphy, the Tao Te Ching has been translated more frequently than any book except the Bible. One reason is its poetic strength and simplicity, its way of knitting aphorisms into a form that sounds profound in any language. Just now though, the appeal is mainly philosophic...
...think anyone will argue with me that we need a new field." Pippy O'Connor, Radcliffe's coach, said yesterday. "There's hardly any grass...