Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Films: Center for Middle Eastern Studies--The Empty Quarter, Grass--A Nation's Battle for Life, and Egypt's Struggle for Stability. 7:30, Science Center D. Free...
They covered the whole face of the earth, wasting all things. The grass of the earth was devoured, and whatsoever fruits were on the trees which the hail had left. And there remained not anything that was green on the trees, or in the herbs of the earth in all Egypt...
...Englanders make money on sheep. But, as Fred Courser, 63, a professional shearer who has barbered 10,000 sheep in his lifetime points out: "Sheep are something anybody can have on a farm without paying all outdoors for. You can feed 'em on grass and hay, and you don't have to grain 'em. If you have the wool, you can spin it and clothe yourself. You can even eat 'em if you have...
...best-tasting grass," says one participant, "you might win a bottle of wine; for the best-smelling grass, a snort of cocaine. It's a lot of fun and everybody's relieved that they made it through the season...
...whole and thereby undercut the all-too-frequent justification for completely ignoring student opinion: "We didn't know what students wanted so we made the decision ourselves." The proposed Constitution is a blueprint for a highly responsive student government--provisions for recall of officers, frequent polling of student opinion, grass-roots meetings between representatives and their constituents, student initiative of referendums binding on the assembly, and the formation of ad hoc study commissions within the assembly on any issue students feel strongly about--will facilitate the kind of student activism on proposed University policies so sorely lacking today...