Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that anchors the radiating composition of Hilly Landscape with a Great Oak Tree and a Grain Field, circa 1654, is perfectly assimilated to the other elements of the painting. Such a canvas is pure Ruisdael: the precise eye for detail, the loving description of foliage, grass and bark that never degenerates into mere fact hunting; the hard-won density of tonal structure, the blessings of silvery light dropping from the sky. One can enter these pastures. Through them, the path to realism is seen to open...
...Participate in grass roots demonstrations against U.S. policy in El Salvador. Americans should support local initiatives and attend Saturday's march on Washington to protest the Government's intervention in El Salvador...
There is little mention of exactly why ranchers in West Texas, Arizona and other areas of the southwestern U.S. want to remove invading species of mesquite. Ranchers go to the trouble of burning, chaining and chemically controlling their mesquite to provide a more favorable growing climate for range grasses. When grass is reestablished, the soil is broken up, more water percolates into the water table, erosion lessens, perennial streams are re-established and, quite often, even wildlife returns...
...resolution was the brainchild of Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, who returned to Washington after the holiday recess last January deeply impressed with the burgeoning grass-roots movement against nuclear arms. Republican Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon agreed to join him as sponsor, and the two lawmakers spent several weeks lining up other supporters. The single-page resolution calls upon both Washington and Moscow to "pursue a complete halt to the nuclear arms race," asks for a bilateral ban on the "testing, production, and further deployment of nuclear warheads," and urges "major reductions" in stockpiled weapons...
...Roman Catholic commission participant says it will be difficult "to win grass-roots approval of what has been done." An early test of that, on the Anglican side, will come in two months when John Paul goes to England, the first visit ever by a Pope. With news of the reunion proposals having leaked, there are already signs of resistance. Last week Archbishop of Canterbury Runcie was forced to abandon a speech on Catholic relations when 150 members of the Liverpool congregation he was addressing staged a noisy protest...