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Word: grass (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they did not take part in the recent rebellion against the constitution in Tabriz. Explains a Fedayan leader: "We do not join any movement simply because it is opposed to the government. For us, what matters is the destruction of class privilege, the exercise of national sovereignty by genuine, grass-roots popular councils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Through Blood and Fire | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...billed to being until 8 p.m., the crowd started building outside the coliseum around 1 o'clock Monday afternoon. By 3, the police had arrived to keep watch. With so long to wait, the kids tried to keep a party mood going. There was some drinking, some grass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Stampede to Tragedy | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...complicated, somewhat contrived, but quite a lot of fun, especially when Ruth tries to elicit some kind of emotional reaction from the impassive Tom--whom she loathes--by telling him of her desire to roll around in the grass at his feet wearing only her glasses. The mild-mannered vet, more concerned with cats than women, remains stoic...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Currier's Conquests | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

Before Kingsberg arrived at Harvard three years ago, pick-up speedball games on Manhattan cement were the closest she had come to soccer matches. But the shock of switching from concrete to grass was only the first of many adjustments that Kingsberg had made over her Crimson soccer career...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Changing With the Seasons | 11/15/1979 | See Source »

...They grow. Their parachutes don't open but Maclaughlin ignores the two plummeting people. He looks steely-eyed at his charges, each of us with our heads tossed back, eyes wide open, jaws dropped, certain the two divers will, in less than 17 seconds, bounce and splatter on the grass. "Ooooo, ooooo" we say as two chutes blossom and the jumpers silently glide toward earth. Maclaughlin's brows are down, his lips pursed, his eyes still locked in on his students. "Snap out of it boys," he spits, "you just missed three minutes of information that could make the difference...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Stepping Out Over Taunton | 11/14/1979 | See Source »

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