Word: grasse
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Ultimately, the sense of conditional freedom illuminates all his best work, which is to say nearly everything in this book. Oddly enough, given his Oxford education and bookish life, Larkin was one of the century's greatest pastoral poets. "At Grass" (about retired racehorses) and "First Sight" (about winter-born lambs) are hymns to the inexorable rhythms of the seasons, to which each human, unfortunately, has only a short-term invitation. "Church Going" deals with a man-made structure. A wayward cyclist stops out of curiosity and enters an empty house of worship: "Once I am sure there's nothing...
Border disputes between Senegal and its northern neighbor Mauritania are not unusual, thanks to the fondness of Mauritanian camels for Senegalese grass. Thus when two Senegalese peasants were shot near the village of Diawara last week the incident seemed unremarkable. But, fanned by the Senegalese media, the deaths ignited long-smoldering ethnic and social tensions between the black Senegalese and the Mauritanian Moors. More than 200 died when civilians from both countries attacked one another in border towns as well as in Senegal's capital, Dakar, and in Mauritania's two major cities. Each country used its army to restore...
Renninger made a tough play of his own in the third inning of the B.U. game. Terriers' DH Mitch Goldstein sent a towering pop fly down the first base line. Battling the sun and the edge of the grass, Renninger bowled into the fence, but held on to the ball...
With runners on second and third, junior Tom Konjoyan blasted a single past the Engineers' third baseman, who was positioned on the grass. Harvard tied the score, and MIT brought in righthanded freshman Eric Hopkins...
...State Rep. Nicholas Paleologos (D-Woburn) said his state sponsored visit to Japan "was an eye-opener, and the grass is not always greener in the other's rice field, as it were...