Word: grass
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...It’s going to be harder for the Democrats to mobilize a grass roots effort because of the intense primary fight,” Kastner said...
...have never been so proud as to be able to accept your draft,” he continued, referring to the grass roots campaign that began while he was in Utah...
...wool, why the Shetland variety is so soft and durable. "The sheep here are small, and they have a soft fleece," she says. "I've been told that the sheep that are put on the hills have a softer wool because they're eating a more coarse grass." The respected craft is diminishing, and Shetlanders are trying to maintain it among the younger generations by teaching it in the schools. "It's an underpaid sort of a craft," says Ina. "The young ones want to go out to work...
Also, the muddy grass makes it more difficult to pick up ground balls and causes shots to take unexpected bounces...
DIED. JOHN GARDNER, 89, influential Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Lyndon Johnson who introduced Medicare and later founded the 200,000-member grass-roots citizens' lobby Common Cause; of prostate cancer; in Palo Alto, Calif...