Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grass will be greener at the Radcliffe Quad this year now that a plan to put orange stripes on the central lawn has been cancelled...
Student distaste--expressed in a meeting last week--for orange grass and impatience to restore the Quad lawn combined to send the "landscape architecture" project back to the drawing boards. Instead, contractors will start laying down normal green sod today and the lawn will be available for use within a week, said project manager Roger J. Cayer...
Although the Office for the Arts had envisioned using the Quad for a series of artistic displays, Director Myra M. Mayman announced Tuesday that the orange stripes will not appear. Mayman's plans would have created in three weeks a zebra-like effect of alternating stripes of orange andgreen grass...
...police and public officials didn't want some 500,000 people drinking together right in front of the Capitol. Foremost among the complaints by the city government was that all those people made a big mess. Keep off the grass people, this is a city...
...grown rotund, reminding visitors of the fellow who planted it 56 years ago. It makes you wonder if there is some mystic force in Irvin Williams' 18 acres where Nature imitates human nature. Williams has seen just about everything else in his 26 years of coaxing trees, flowers, grass, birds and squirrels to coexist on top of and among security alarms, underground cables and rooms. The battle is constant, but he loves it. There is Grover Cleveland's Acer palmatum dissectum (Japanese spiderleaf) and Franklin Roosevelt's Tilia cordata, the little-leaf linden. They whisper and exult in the breezes...