Word: grass
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...people's monopoly on the subjects of expulsion, rape and the bombing war has to be broken by democratic and neutral historians who take a balanced view," he argues. The question of German victimhood has been much-discussed all year. This past spring, Nobel prizewinning novelist Günter Grass published Im Krebsgang (Crab Walk), a novella about the millions who perished on the eastern front and in particular the 1945 sinking in the Baltic Sea of the Wilhelm Gustloff, when as many as 9,000 lives were lost. The debate about the novel soon centered on the political correctness...
Last year, after the unthinkable happened, a wave of spontaneous grass-roots patriotism spread across the land, and we all stood in line, the pinstripe suits and the grandmas and grandpas and the kids with the knapsacks, and accepted the inconvenience with darned good humor. It was a rare moment of common feeling, and we should hold on to that feeling--for the execs and traders, secretaries, flight attendants, the dishwashers and wait staff at Windows on the World who all went down together...
...Assistant Director Leslie Hill says the office is currently engaged in a “grass-roots effort” in which departments disseminate the office’s information about studying abroad to promote student interest...
...week after the game, one of the pranksters reflected, “Our last worry was that the piece of sod would die and there’d be a brown square on the field. It was like a heart transplant operation—at all costs, keep the grass alive...
...committee has already replaced benches throughout the Square, replanted all of the grass in Winthrop Park and installed new street lamps...