Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Campaign's slogan notes, a freeze is only "step one. "We urge every legislator to join with the 15 senators and 120 congressmen from both parties who have already endorsed the freeze It is an idea whose time has come And it is an idea that enjoys growing grass-roots support--several state legislatures have already endorsed a freeze, as have 80 Vermont town meetings...
...tournament win streak. He has emerged victorious in five of his last six encounters with John McEnroe, the world's top-ranked player. But at Wimbledon, his payoffs are traditionally paltry. In a total of three outings, he has only reached the quarterfinal round once. Realizing that slippery, unpredictable grass courts are less hospitable to his power-paced grooved baseline game, the 21-year-old Lendl reasons. Why take two weeks off prior to the event to train for the sport's most demanding tourney, when my chances to improve my world ranking and pocketbook are dim. Can his single...
...first Tuesday in March, Vermont citizens convene in their towns, pretty much as New Englanders have done for three centuries, to govern themselves. These town meetings are exemplars of grass-roots democracy, but they rarely deal with issues of national, much less international, significance. This year was different. On agendas throughout the state, tucked between routine budget matters and garbage-dump disputes, was a motion calling for a moratorium on the spread of nuclear weapons. In all but 31 of the 192 towns voting, the motion was approved. "The people of Vermont," said Patrick Leahy, their Democratic Senator...
...angle off the slopes at treetop level. When we are almost on a ridge line, an entire column of army troops appears, dark figures moving like bearers through the high, waving grass. They fan out around the ship and fire continuously back at the tree line. More men come running with bodies slung over their shoulders, dropping them hurriedly at the chopper door and darting away. There is something imploring in all the eyes that I can see. Nobody wants to touch the bodies. The dead men's shirts are off and at first I think they are guerrillas...
...argue with them on that one, and tell them how many lawns there are in New York City." Martin said, "but be sure to say lawns and not grass...