Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...change came as a result of grass-roots pressure for an abortion stance that better reflected the diverse opinions of American Baptists, who include many conservatives along with more liberal members. It is a pressure being felt by other mainline denominations, a vaguely defined group of predominantly white, moderate-to-liberal churches accounting for about 25 million of America's 75 million Protestants. "The mood is swinging toward a real serious look at a new abortion position," says Louisa Rucker, executive director of the National Organization of Episcopalians for Life...
...Melissa Denny decided a few years ago that it was time to stay home and cultivate her children, she and her husband bought a house in Everett, Wash., on half an acre of mud and blackberries. Her staunchly evergreen neighbors watched in amazement as she planted clover and rye grass, let it grow a foot high, then plowed it under. Raised vegetable beds and fruit trees began to appear. Then local children gathered, holding tricycle races on the sawdust paths. "They all come over to graze," she laughs. "I have to grow twice as many strawberries and raspberries...
...million growing herbs, in contrast with 5 million spending $39 million the year before. Some make tea from them, some bathe in them, some swear to their healing powers. Having mastered the basic basil, rosemary and sage, gardeners move on to lovage stems, bee-balm blossoms and lemon grass. The health conscious prize herbs as a salt substitute, while the cost conscious find that pricey, herb-flavored vinegars and oils are easily made at home...
...raspberries). It is undeniably fun to feed oneself from one's harvest, but remember that gardening is not supposed to be practical. If, on the other hand, you yearn to grow carrots (which do grow like weeds), then plant carrots. Plant whatever tastes good, whatever pleases you. Plant lawn grass. Plant garlic. Plant fig trees...
While Mrazek and 200 allies on Capitol Hill hope to bring the bill to a vote next month, Annie Snyder and her supporters are sniping from the grass-roots level. "We have Save the Battlefield battalions forming across the U.S.," she says. "Schoolchildren and veterans are writing and sending money." A former Marine officer, Snyder, 66, is a veteran of Manassas campaigns. In 1973 she fought to stop an amusement park planned for the same spot. For that victory, this Yankee from Pittsburgh was awarded the Jefferson Davis medal by the United Daughters of the Confederacy...