Word: grass
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...brick buildings on identical streets that seemed to merge together. When I visited Harvard during my senior year, I had thought the Yard was the sum of the College, so I was shocked to discover those Georgian acres by the River. The Eliot courtyard was a second shock. The grass was pristine and emerald after a summer of crisp maintenance, and the trees were thick with late summer. I was overcome by the primary colors of Harvard--green grass, red brick, white mortar and trim, blue river through the iron gates. Upperclassmen lay quietly on the lawn talking or reading...
...collective childhood of my generation, there is a persistent image of fathers as guest stars in the family drama. Dads would show up at birthdays and holidays, take their bows and repair to the garage or the golf course. Dads were champion grass cutters and turkey carvers, the grand adjudicators in family disputes. They taught us how to ride a bike and throw a baseball but didn't hang around long once we had learned. We adored our dads, and we also ignored them...
...National Spelling Bee winner George Abraham 48. He auditioned for a job on Monday Night Football 51. Earth in the Balance author 52. Prime Minister who has dissolved his parliament 53. LaPierre's org. 54. 2000 role for Julia 55. Editorial "Forget it!" 56. Drops on the grass 57. Places for tacks...
...take raw carbon and arrange it, atom by atom, into a perfect diamond. Imagine a machine that dismembers dioxin molecules, one by one, into their component parts. Or a device that cruises the human bloodstream, seeks out cholesterol deposits on vessel walls and disassembles them. Or one that takes grass clippings and remanufactures them into bread. Literally every physical object in the world, from computers to cheese, is made of molecules, and in principle a nanomachine could construct all of them...
...night lingered, tipsy neighbors returned from various parties and bars to plop down on the grass, listen to music and pass around their first-year facebook to pick out targets for the next night's debauchery...