Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dozen or so members of the public, the program was partly an exercise in self-criticism and partly a pep talk. Democratic officials defended the approach as an effective way of proving to voters that the party is engaged in a reappraisal of its appeal from the grass roots up. Said Mark Johnson, an official of the party's House Congressional Campaign Committee, which produced the $100,000 film: "I think we should be applauded for recognizing some of the labels the Republicans threw at us and doing something about them...
Before the farms there was the tall grass, and before that the boundless wind and whipsawing climates, and before that mile-thick blankets of ice. "A prairie never rests for long, nor does it permit anything else to rest," wrote John Madson in his book Where the Sky Began, an eloquent evocation of the changing heartland and its people. "Those first Europeans had no basis for even imagining wild fields through which a horseman might ride westward for a month or more." The land enlarged their spirits and made them prosper...
...liberation theologians like Brazil's Boff, the base communities are also the true pillars of a church-to-be--as he puts it, the "church being born from the faith of the poor." Boff's views provide a theological underpinning for the so-called Church of the People, a grass-roots vision of Catholicism that sees the base communities as a separate source of spiritual inspiration for the faithful--an alternative, in other words, to the inspiration of Rome...
...bishops are all hunkering down in the grass like a bunch of guinea hens," says Margaret Traxler. "Wait a minute, I don't want to insult the hens. They (the bishops) don't stir a feather because they fear for their own tails...
...that will have to be used to feed hungry Sudanese. Says Amala Hussein, the mother of six from the drought-stricken region of Northern Kordofan: "In our area there is only hunger and thirst now. In the summer our goats, sheep and camels were all dying from lack of grass...