Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crack, and an almost drowned-out cry. The corner of the post was cased down inches from my back, and, as I turned to stand clear, a girl by there, prone--dead or alive I didn't know--but red, very red, and everything about her matched the colored grass we were standing...
...weather-beaten white house behind the plaque has a "For Lease" sign planted out in front. The sign, too, is rusting. On the grass rests the wrapper from a bag of onion rings, and a discarded box of wild-cherry-flavored cough drops...
...Hughes Aircraft, Sperry Corporation and General Electric. Money also came from Draper Labs, which is unwilling to disclose the extent of its financing. But the total of corporate funds employed by Draper's pro-nuclear campaign may well have been more than 20 times the total budget of the grass-roots citizens' effort against nuclear weapons work...
Students trampling through the little patches of grass and a complicated artificial irrigation system added to the problem, he said. "We needed a viable plan to solve all of these problems," he added...
Some of us even thought a park with grass, trees and benches would be nice. What a novel idea for Harvard. But no, the University, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to test (once again) our thresholds of pain. As a child, I used to ask my mother where ugly buildings came from. Tenderly, she would reply that they had always been there; it was God's way of revealing the imperfection of the temporal world. The building of Sackler Hall lays to rest another one of my childhood beliefs...