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Word: grasse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...palm fronds rattle behind the right-field fence. The odors of peanuts, mustard and beer waft over the emerald green grass, and in the inebriating sunshine, laughter and catcalls issue from the bleachers. An eight-year-old boy waves a miniature bat, a bikini-clad college student ogles the first baseman, and a pair of guys in U.A.W. T shirts argue earned-run averages in the shade of an entryway tunnel. At the plate, a nervous hopeful up from the minors squares his batting helmet and prays to the puffy clouds above the orange groves: God, please send the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida Spring's Old Sweet Song | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...Columbia has a such a big advantage playing on clay, since it's the only Ivy League school with clay courts," Nikki Rival said. "But it wasn't that hard adjusting. A couple of us slipped on the grass. I fell twice...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Netwomen Top Columbia on the Road | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

When Mikhail Gorbachev first sowed the seeds of democracy, no one could have foreseen that they would mature so quickly into grass-roots revolutions like the Estonian Popular Front. There may be times, in fact, when the Soviet leader must wonder if he has planted a brier patch. The Estonian initiative has given rise to other popular fronts in the Baltic states, but its indirect impact has been far greater. It has become a model for an amorphous mass of unofficial political groupings and single-issue movements across the country, championing causes long ignored by the party and government bureaucracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Union: Go Faster! No! Go Slower! Pushing Forward | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

Epps said Quincy House Superintendent Ronald W. Levesque will be in charge of opening the Plympton St. park, which is across the street from Quincy House. However, the Fly Club will still be responsible for keeping the grounds and mowing the grass Epps said...

Author: By Angela C. Loh, | Title: College, Not Fly Club, Will Open Garden Gate | 4/8/1989 | See Source »

...going to be really important for people to start lobbying and working at the grass roots level because that's where all the drama of reproductive freedom is going to be," Dunne said...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Students to Join D.C. March | 4/8/1989 | See Source »

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