Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sales was referring to the significance that some liberation theologians have bestowed upon "base communities," Latin America's most notable evangelizing innovation. Perhaps as many as 150,000 of these grass-roots Christian communities are scattered across Latin America, roughly half of them in Brazil. In the main, the base communities are a promising attempt to solve an endemic problem in Latin America, the chronic shortage of priests to instruct the majority of the impoverished but deeply religious masses of citizenry and see to their spiritual and social needs. (In Latin America, there is one priest for every...
...full of steaming hot train cars crawling from steaming St. Louis to steaming Chicago and filthy uniforms donned day after day--bred a kind of unity that's not apparent when the writer talks to contemporary ballplayers in this age of designated hitters, designated contract negotiators and designated stadium grass...
There is talk of a new stadium in Chicago, somewhere suburban, maybe even Arlington Heights, domed of course, carpeted with plastic grass. There the wave would flourish...
...outside Milan, Italy, set off a mild explosion, discharging a cloud of between 1 lb. and 22 lbs. of poisonous dioxin into the atmosphere. Since then, 10 million cu. ft. of contaminated earth has been buried in large pits and covered with clay, plastic sheets and cement. Newly seeded grass masks any signs of the event. Although no one died because of the mishap, it remains to be seen whether the local cancer rate will have increased as a result of the severe dioxin exposure...
RONALD REAGAN picked Bush in 1980 to balance his grass-roots Western conservatism with some Eastern Establishment moderatism. Selecting a vice president a vice president to balance the ticket is hardly new: the party nominee almost always chooses the potential second-in-command more for ideological or geographical appeal than for talent or expertise. This year's prematurely gleeful Democrats all too readily dissected their female candidate into the politically relevant pieces: woman, mother of three, Roman Catholic, Italian, liberal Democrat, and New Yorker...