Word: grass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with an emery board in his hip pocket. He was captured on film, during an umpires' search, casually tossing something with his right hand while jettisoning something else with his left. A patch of sandpaper, described by the umps as "contoured for a finger," was also recovered from the grass. Niekro was ejected...
Sand dunes can also be destroyed in subtler ways. For a dune to form in the first place, sand must somehow be trapped, much as a snow fence traps drifting snow. That something is dune grass. After the dunes form, the roots anchor the sand in place. "Dune grass is pretty hardy stuff," explains Stephen Leatherman, a University of Maryland coastal-erosion expert. "It can take salt spray and high winds. But it just never evolved to take heavy pedestrian traffic or dune buggies." Since the plants depend on chlorophyll in their green leafy parts to convert sunlight into food...
Mental health officials are beginning to bow to pressure from parents and medical professionals to create programs tailored for drug-dependent mentally ill youngsters. "There's been a tremendous grass-roots campaign to convince the mental health bureaucracy of the problem," says Kathleen Sciacca, a substance-abuse coordinator at Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center in New York. Indeed, this fall the National Institute of Mental Health plans to fund 13 pilot treatment programs. Says Talbott: "We know what approaches are necessary to treat these people. We just need to use them...
...player will always share a unique bond, whether or not the player chooses to acknowledge his audience. Rick Burleson is still my all-time hero, even though the one time I shouted encouragement from the stands he scowled and looked down at the infield grass. I never knew why, but I'd like to think he appreciated the recognition...
...narrator is explicitly Grass himself. He alludes to his birth and childhood in Danzig (now Gdansk), his service as a Hitler Cub during his early adolescence, and his later authorial relations to one Oskar Matzerath, the hunchbacked, stunted hero of The Tin Drum. Having asked for and received a pet rat as a Christmas present, the speaker begins suffering nightmares in which he must endure diatribes by "the She-rat of my dreams." She complains of, among many other things, the beastly treatment the rat has had to suffer at the hands of humans, dating all the way back...