Word: grass
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...designer, the Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier. Double parked along Quincy Street sat a limousine and out of a nearby truck spilled props and other movie-making equipment. A militia of gaffers, grips, special effects technicians and camera operators matted down Harvard’s primly manicured grass as they scurried around, barking into walkie-talkies and cell-phones. It was a scene more fitting for the back lot of a Hollywood studio than it was amidst the respectable brick and ivy of the Harvard campus...
...Matt Thomas made a name for himself, back when he was still nursing a fractured foot that kept him sidelined for the entire 2003 season. Back when anonymity was possible for the 6’2, 245 lb. rising Harvard junior who had yet to step on to the grass at Harvard Stadium...
Herbal remedies are touted as a cure for everything from the common cold to cancer and now even SAD. Some recommended products include fish oil capsules, St. John’s Wort, rhodolia root powder, ginger grass incense, bergamont oil and gingko biloba, all of which can be found at kalyx.com...
...been supporters of impeachment. By the time of Campaign '04, their website had become a symbol of the new power of the Internet in national politics--a cyberspace headquarters of anti-Bush sentiment and a powerful online fund-raising tool, with some 2.8 million members. Backed with millions of grass-roots dollars, MoveOn took to the airwaves with one Bush-bashing TV ad after another--but to no avail...
...capacity of independent nonparty organizations like MoveOn, Americans Coming Together and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now to raise money and mobilize anti-Bush voters has acted like a fresh rain on the Democratic Party's parched grass roots. Even though the Democratic candidate lost, the party and the broader network of liberal, anti-Bush organizations succeeded in raising record sums of money and enlisting unprecedented numbers of volunteers. Far from being distraught and depressed by the election, the way they were after 2000, many Democrats sound surprisingly upbeat about the future...