Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scene at Graceland before the funeral, described a conversation with Charlie Hodge, Presley's guitarist; he tearfully told how he had "been with Elvis all day. Just this afternoon I shaved his sideburns. It was the least I could do." Even today, souvenir hunters pull blades of grass from the lawn around the mausoleum housing the coffins of Elvis and his mother, who died in 1958. One night police arrested three men for trespassing on cemetery grounds. Alarmed, Presley's lawyers and his father Vernon are seeking city permission to move the remains of Elvis and his mother...
Most of the reports were cautious, understated and well documented with figures and dates. There were, however, some missteps. The Washington Post's David Broder began discovering a major grass-roots revulsion toward Lance; trouble was, Broder documented his assertions by quoting a number of Republican state chairmen and pollsters, who had not taken any recent polls on the subject. The Post one day reported that Powell told a breakfast gathering of reporters that Lance would be asked to resign; other reporters in attendance recalled that Powell said the White House had decided not to ask for Lance...
ONCE HE GETS to Western (after a very funny scene in which he is ripped off by a comely hitchhiker), the naive hero quickly finds out the truth about intercollegiate sports in the big time. He is given a cushy job watching grass grow in a stadium, slipped a lot of cash by an alumnus, introduced to the jock party scene complete with willing coeds and exposed to a maniacal head coach who has to have things his way. Things do not go well, alas. The coach doesn't like his style of play and waxes antagonistic, finally having...
...fashioned body-swaying, arm-waving, eye-rolling times were had last week in Kansas City as 45,000 members of the Charismatic Christian movement met in their first interdenominational assembly. Said Kevin Ranaghan, a Roman Catholic who was chairman of the conference: "I believe this is the largest grass-roots ecumenical movement in 800 years...
...thrall of the office is extraordinary. One senses it in unsingular things. For instance, I never saw so many lawns being cut at the same time. The smell of newly mown grass drifted out of the hills onto the flat land and overpowered the senses. There were American flags on the houses of the meanest and most ageless old recluses of my boyhood. The place was taut with pride. There was something touching in the spontaneity...