Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Originally scheduled to take place on the new North House terrace, the party was relocated to a patch of grass at the southern end of the Quad, because the terrace is under construction and off-limits to students. The rest of the lawn is still a giant mud hole and mountain...
...issue will come to a head next month when the 13th Communist Party Congress meets to select the country's top leaders. In secret ballots last month, grass-roots party members reportedly rejected several prominent taizi pai as delegates. Among them: Chen Yuan, the son of Politburo Member Chen Yun and a member of the standing committee of the Peking Municipal Party, and Chen Haosu, Vice Minister of Radio, Film and Television and son of the late Marshal Chen Yi. Yet neither is finished in politics. Insiders expect Chen Yuan to be named Deputy Party Secretary in Peking, while Chen...
Others did not find the outdoor life as enticing. Andy, a sophomore from the Midwest, says he worked in his hometown cutting grass, landscaping and doing gardening--in 95 degree heat. "It was really boring. I dreaded getting up in the morning." After all, he adds, "grass is grass...
...Chip Reid, 39, a partner in the Washington law firm of Covington & Burling, the dream house has become a reality. He and his wife and two young daughters moved into their new home in McLean, Va., last month, just as the first grass began to peep through on their newly seeded front lawn. Their dwelling, though, is more than just a cozy little nest in the suburbs. The Reids' Colonial-style house has 15 rooms, including four bedrooms, a library and an exercise center. Stereo music can be piped into each room, and, using infrared remote-control devices, the family...
...bush crackled under a punishing afternoon sun as the government patrol scoured the hillside for enemy tracks. Then they heard it: the low murmur of voices drawing closer. Below them, a file of four men -- three carrying AK-47 rifles -- slowly advanced through a yellow sea of elephant grass. Without warning, the government patrol opened fire, gunning down all four in 40 seconds. When the bodies were searched, they recovered 278 rounds of ammunition, two ivory tusks and the horns of a black rhinoceros...