Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recalls. "I was sleeping on a raised platform above the back porch for 30 bucks a month. There were six drugheads crashing on the living room floor and shooting up in the bathroom. We didn't want them there, but they were friends of our grass connection and didn't have any place else to stay...
...real competitor is the Olympic Games, also a quadrennial event. But, as soccer fans point out, the comparison is unfair-to the Olympics. After all, the World Cup has a single, dramatic, inexorable focus: 22 men, eleven on each side, mostly well-paid professionals, speeding around a patch of grass, chasing a black-and-white ball called a tango as quickly and as cleverly as their feet can carry them...
Luckily, none of this talk distracted the players themselves. By the time the Sunnyside Park grass turned green the next March, the recess period conversation at Stillman Elementary School turned, as usual, to baseball. An not just to the game itself, but to the exciting prospect of new uniforms and a tight pennant race. No first fight no matter how ugly was going to kill Little League in Tenafly. The older folks could worry now and yell and scream later; no one pounding the base paths at Sunnyside had time to worry about such distractions...
Some members of the Boston-based Physicians for Social Responsibility, which has been at the forefront of the movement, were concerned that the grass-roots call for nuclear disarmament might be co-opted by the radical left. Most nervous was the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, which at week's end had not granted visas to 401 foreign participants who it said were connected with Communist organizations, despite a suit filed in federal court by U.S. civil rights groups demanding entry for the visitors. Meanwhile, White House officials were concerned that the rally could only hurt Administration attempts...
...with strong ties to the Lutheran Church. Said Spokesman Wolfgang Brinkel: "We cannot on one hand do nothing during [Soviet President Leonid] Brezhnev's visit [last November] and then suddenly stage a demonstration during Reagan's visit." The Dutch-based Inter-Church Peace Council, a highly effective grass-roots organization that has served as a model for peace groups throughout the Continent, also will not take part in the rally. Said Spokesman Mient-Jan Faber: "We do find the demonstration meaningful...