Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...absence of detailed information, Europeans and their governments took frantic steps. Polish authorities banned the sale of milk from cows fed on fresh grass and said children from birth to age 16 would receive iodine solutions to keep their bodies from absorbing the element in radioactive form. That created lines of up to 100 customers at Warsaw drugstores, while special all-night pharmacies had block-long queues even at 4 a.m. Washington advised women of childbearing age and all children against traveling to Poland because of potential health risks. Rumania, declaring a state of alert in all parts...
...motorcade, and the cream of Grand Rapids society turned out, checkbooks at the ready. New York Congressman Jack Kemp made a less elaborate entrance: he arrived at the Midway Motor Lodge on the outskirts of town late one night and was lmet the next morning by grass-roots Republican activists with toddlers in tow. Although the next Republican presidential nominee will not be chosen for more than two years, Bush and Kemp find themselves already engaged in a lengthy scramble for delegates in Michigan...
...Grass hasn't yet returned to the pitcher's mound where Jon Matlack once tossed a one-hitter or to the home plate area from where Fred Stanley once hit three grand slams in one game...
...instructors who brought their classes to meet on the Yard's less-than-lush grass weren't hoping April sunshine would rekindle interest in Tocqueville or Melville that had melted away with the March frost. Instead, they moved their classes to support the goals of the Yard's shantytown-protest against Harvard's South Africa-related investments. But faculty members and students charged the practice coerced students to support the protest...
...field of ex-husbands, a bewitching mother, a homosexual brother, a heterosexual near-blind brother, and an eleven-year-old daughter by magnificent, "fascinatingly brooding, darkly luminous" Renaissance Rocco. From Maxi's view at the top, Krantz scatters a lot of glitz: hot seawater bubble baths, iced buffalo-grass vodka, tarte Tatin, Pratesi sheets, Don Johnson, Le Cirque and the Bohemian Grove. But she never forgets the essentials: steamy dialogue, unexpurgated sex and the outside chance that some of her fictive creatures may actually exist. I'll Take Manhattan is not literature, but it is lively...