Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convinced too that there are certain advantages in regimentation-of the keep-off-the-grass variety. Most of us lead a cluttered life and it seems to me that if some of the unimportant things could be decided for us it would give us more freedom to develop as individuals. I never want to impose on the Wellesley girls a uniform and one locker . . . but I found that even under such a discipline, a girl could express her individuality in the very way that she wore...
...scores of their 6,300 readers. The New York Museum of Science & Industry, which passes out annual awards to businesses, for the first time had picked a newspaper-and christened the Courier "America's foremost small-town daily." Reason: its talent for "promoting American life, reaching to the grass roots...
...Judging by tales from the grass roots, the country would welcome a return to one-man government for a while...
...poll of 4,249 Republican grass-roots workers produced these straws in the light breezes of 1945's partisan politics...
...Harold Le Druillenec, British: "When the British tanks came, I was having my first meal in five days. I was eating grass. . . . I think I can fairly describe Belsen as the foulest and vilest spot that ever soiled the surface of the earth...