Word: grass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extremist movements. Already the country is bristling with talk of total revolution from the bottom up. Aristide and his supporters say they are actually a modifying influence and favor only "active nonviolence." The priest's political and religious philosophy is a homegrown variant of liberation theology, which advocates grass-roots social reform and a "people's church," with a lesser role for the ecclesiastical hierarchy...
Those must have been gratifying words for Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who has repeatedly pushed for less talk and more work. But they were double- edged. The shovel brigade was not organized by the Communist Party but by a new, pro-perestroika grass-roots movement called the Estonian Popular Front. Since the group first emerged last April in the most northerly of the Soviet Union's three Baltic republics, similar movements have taken root and flourished in neighboring Latvia and Lithuania, attracting hundreds of thousands of followers. What unites them is the common goal of promoting greater regional autonomy...
...park in the most splendid of California mornings. A soccer field, roped off. Twenty or 30 small boys in their soccer uniforms, their parents and friends on the sidelines. The candidate appears, wearing khakis, red crew-neck sweater and jogging shoes. He saunters in his freighted way across the grass toward the boys, and then, without transition, starts idly toeing a soccer ball toward them, again in that curious slow-motion way he has, his body doing not the act itself but the slo-mo replay. The photographers click away. Dukakis, one thinks, may have made a mistake...
WYOMING. A humorless ideologue who has criticized even Reagan for insufficient dedication to weapons systems, Malcolm Wallop has come under fire for not tending to the grass roots. Though he is not wildly popular, he remains a slight favorite over his Democratic challenger, state senator John Vinich...
...sudden, you see a universe of green around you. The field is carpeted by some of the most verdant grass you've ever seen. Even the walls and seats are painted in a green hue, which anywhere else would be called putrid...