Word: grass
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There, on the same patch of grass where two dozen big leaguers and four national championship nines have gathered in the last 10 years, Walsh delivered what must have been the seminal speech of his long, highly successful coaching career...
...saddled with sanctions for trading missiles with China -- will be exponentially greater. And that's not counting the crippling cost of a now inevitable subcontinental arms race. Back in 1974, Pakistani prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto vowed his country would go nuclear even if his people had to "eat grass." Now the nukes are a reality, and the grass diet may be just around the corner...
...appears to be something rare in journalism: a genuine con man who made up not just quotations but people, corporations, legislation--even a "National Memorabilia Convention" ("held last weekend in Rockville, Md."), where vendors hawked such Lewinsky-related items as an inflatable Monica doll that recited Leaves of Grass...
DIED. MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS, 108, ever vigilant empress of the Florida Everglades, who led a half-century crusade to preserve the fabled watery wilderness; in Miami. A Wellesley College-educated New Englander, Douglas first came to Florida in 1915. She penned her classic book The Everglades: River of Grass in 1947, lyrically making the case for conserving the swath of swampland, long considered an impediment to real estate developers. She continued as the irrepressible mouthpiece for the marshes, in 1970 founding the Friends of the Everglades--dubbed Marjory's army. Her green streak was only natural, she told TIME...
...tracks the party's chances in November's election. John Linder's message, contained in a confidential memo in advance of the April 23 meeting, was simple: the G.O.P. could lose its narrow 11-seat majority in the House if it didn't find a way to galvanize its grass-roots activists, many of whom are Christian conservatives...