Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wild horses of the West are a living heritage of the past, not, as you say, "mongrels of the range." There are those who would destroy this legacy, believing that only animals that turn green grass into green money should be permitted to live on the land...
...army in the countryside, except around the Maze; and even that place, 13 miles from town, is partly hidden from view by a pasture and a golf course. Otherwise it is all peace and greenery: swans preening on the lake shores; hedges that make quilts of the fields; grass so rich and various you can tell the county by its milk...
...gentler than their masters would prefer-even when their masters happen to be in the military. Samer's father is a lieutenant colonel in the P.L.O.; he controls the joint Palestinian-Lebanese forces in the region of Tyre. At the moment, Colonel Azmi controls his forces from a grass hut on stilts standing over an area bombed out by Israel last summer. The hut is furnished with red leather chairs and a Swedish-modern desk, behind which Colonel Azmi, 40, smokes Winstons and makes pronouncements...
...where we kept our meat, and Mother chased him out with a broom." Al Chartier, 37, a local guide, recalls sitting on the banks of a nearby river this September while his wife and three daughters took a chilly swim. Suddenly he glimpsed a polar bear lying in the grass on the opposite shore watching them. Chartier quietly fetched his gun. But the bear never made a move toward the bathers. Says Chartier: "When they finished their swim, the bear got up and left...
...chances for political change unfortunately also make clear the need for a thorough going transformation. Of course, there can be no stinting of political effort on foreign policy issues like El Salvador. All the traditional methods will have some effect; grass roots mobilization, so effectively achieved in the last two years by opponents of nuclear weaponry; intimidating of the Democratic Party into steadfast support of a strong human rights posture; and marches and sit-ins and slogan changing. But at best that will not be enough to do more than change policy as it regards El Salvador. It will...