Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Friday John Paul was acting as if the attack had never occurred. Visiting the agricultural community of Vila Viçosa 90 miles east of Lisbon, in a stronghold of grass-roots Communism where dirt-poor farm laborers seized estates in the wake of the 1974 revolution, the Pontiff issued a rousing call for "fundamental human rights" and better living conditions for rural workers. Afterward, he stepped out into the crowd, pushing through a tight police cordon to shake hands. At one point he beckoned to a cluster of men and women wearing broad-brimmed straw hats and blankets draped...
...they curse the ooze underfoot. It is a time to kayak on flooded rivers, to boil maple sap, to do some spring cleaning (Vermonters say, with reason, "I'm going to hoe out my house"). It is a time to stand outside in fresh air hinting of the grass and lilacs to come, and to be hugely entertained by the sight of neighbors and innocent strangers dealing with...
...legislators are reacting to grass-roots sentiment that has led 31 states-three short of the number needed-to pass resolutions demanding that a constitutional convention be called to write a balanced-budget amendment. The trouble with such a convention is that it could not be limited to that one issue. For that reason, most congressional supporters of the amendment would rather follow the traditional path of having it passed by two-thirds of the House and the Senate and then ratified by at least 38 states within seven years. Opponents of the amendment had thought, before the President spoke...
...question of solvency, once the initial funds are gone. Will new subsidies appear? Or can the library somehow become selfsupporting? Answers are several years away. In the meantime, readers can watch Melville develop into the author of Moby Dick and observe Whitman tinkering with and expanding Leaves of Grass. All of Hawthorne's eerie, ambiguous short fiction can be tucked into a purse or briefcase. Harriet Beecher Stowe never looked better, nor did Uncle Tom's Cabin, the melodramatic novel that abetted a war. That is not a bad beginning for a publishing project resting on a slim...
...started as a grass roots movement in Vermont, rushed through New Hampshire. Massachusetts, California and even penetrated the ivy-covered walls of Harvard itself...