Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lawn, especially the mother's Japanese garden parts of which had been imported Before their departure, the family had rigorously instructed me on how to care for the yard, watering every night, mowing every week, and weeding whenever I saw weeds. During the month they they were away, the grass turned from a lush green to a dried brown, the weeds grew as big as the plants, and the Japanese garden looked like the bottom of a fishtank...
...Washington officials" gave grounds for hope that housing might be the next item slated for progress. "Our children need warm houses that can be lit with the electric," said Nancy White Horse, who already had many grandchildren of her own. Then, as we stood amid the tall yellow grass by her road, she made me a promise. "You're not the first to fly out here and look around," she informed me with a patient smile. "Nothing ever comes of it, but I'll tell you what: if you can get some houses built for my people, I'll make...
...been his simple wish to walk barefoot on the grass and some day to live normally in the world. For this hope David, 12, and his family took the ultimate gamble: they traded the safety of a germ-free plastic bubble at Houston's Texas Children's Hospital for the slim chance that a bone-marrow transplant would allow the immunologically defenseless boy to live freely. Last week they lost their gamble, and his death was felt across the country...
Hart, who conducted a strong grass-roots campaign in New Hampshire over the last 18 months and stressed new ideas and leadership, appeared before cheering chanting supporters in Manchester's Chateau Lounge...
There have been some subtle changes around the town square of Greenfield, Iowa (pop. 2,244), where the real grass roots grow. The Ideal Cafe, dispensary of ribaldry, weak coffee and occasional political wisdom, has metamorphosed into Toad's Place, so named for a town boy who went to California but in the nick of time saved his soul, bought the business and headed back...