Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should know. For the past 60 years the state agency has controlled the very ebb and flow of my livelihood--so to speak. When my grass gets overgrown, they trim it. When my streams get more polluted, they check my water quality for would-be swimmers. And when I need repairs, they...well...
...national and local leaderships of the United Auto Workers (UAW) split over organizing tactics. The national UAW wanted to rely on its prestige and to organize through heavy does of literature in the workplace while the local leaders pushed to continue their one-on-one, grass-roots style of organizing. The local leaders, reacting to the UAW's top-heavy organizing strategy, formed a separate group, preliminary to an official union. The new group must be ratified by the NLRB after a majority of Harvard workers approves it--a conclusion expected after a scheduled spring vote...
...Newman. "Even without it, a lot of my stuff has been kept off the radio." Fogerty recalls reading a newspaper column attacking one of his loveliest Creedence Clearwater Revival tunes, Lookin' Out My Back Door, because the writer thought a line about a lawn was a reference to smokable grass...
...could capture Catcher in the Rye on film, though one supposes that Frances Coppola or a Michael Cimino could spend a couple dozen million trying. Of course either would give us lot of grass--acres and acres of golden grass--with a Wagnerian soundtrack, but it would still feel so ... phony...
Larson would go home and write that "you could have mowed the grass with a push mower. Part of the left-field fence had blown down. The dugouts looked more like bus-stop shelters. The bleachers were rickety. And the wind had bent the light poles at rakish angles...