Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home from school. I was always running to hide in my bedroom, where I felt safe. I would actually call out, "Safe" to myself. When I was about 13, one local bully gave me nothing but grief all year long. He would knock me down on the grass, or hold my head in the drinking fountain, or push my face in the dirt and give me bloody noses when we had to play football in phys. ed. Once he threw a cherry bomb between my legs in the school toilet. I got up before it exploded. This was somebody...
Gullikson's grass court game gave him the edge against Mecir, the latest tennis star to emerge from Czechoslovakia...
...manager wrote Grove of a recent invitation to a party at the home of one of the firm's managers. "While I was there, I noticed a group gathered outside on the patio. I guess I'm naive, but I decided to join the crowd. Well, they were smoking grass, and they had other drugs available." The reader declined to participate, but feared that "I may be too conservative." Grove firmly approved of his correspondent's actions...
...Dowayos make disappointing environmentalists. They fish by heaving pesticide into streams, and ask white men to bring machine guns to dispatch the few remaining antelope in the area. To speed the growth of new grass, they set vast bush fires each year, which incinerate most of the young wildlife. Barley also fails to find the exalted spirituality expected among the primitives. The Dowayos are placid people, devoted to ribald joking, sexual freedom, wife beating and an unusual beer that Barley says "enables one to pass directly from sobriety to hangover without an intervening stage of drunkenness." Every so often...
...overthrown by Zia in 1977. (In 1978 the popular Bhutto was hanged by the Zia government for allegedly conspiring to have a political opponent killed.) Bhutto was obsessed by India's nuclear progress. In 1965 he had declared, "If India builds the Bomb, we will eat grass or leaves, even go hungry. But we will...