Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House was built on the strategy of persuading the public to trust him. Without the solid backing of the Democratic Party's traditional power blocs, like the labor unions, Carter believes that he must function as a kind of political guerrilla, building a base at the grass roots. Says one White House aide: "In effect. Carter has to keep on campaigning." He also needs to get widespread backing to put pressure on Congress if it balks at passing his programs...
...place to hide," the superclarity of the camera's vision lends these pictures an uncanny surrealism. The trees in Wing's pictures, or Germano's, have leaves that are leafier than any your eyes perceive. To see like this is frighteningly immediate and imminent; it's like hearing the grass grow, or a squirrel's heartbeat...
...that sun sets and clouds roll in you might prefer Stormin' Norman and Suzy 'who have taken New York by, well, who were very popular with the hard-core dwellers of that real city. They are playing a benefit performance for the Clanshell Alliance, an anti-nuclear grass roots group, at 8:30 pm on Sunday at B.U.'s Hayden Hall...
...really believed all this, he didn't act that way. He rarely left his Wisconsin home during the campaign, prefering "grass roots organizing" to slick whistlestop blitzes--or perhaps just prefering to save his money. His campaign promises waxed even more rhetorical than did those of the major party candidates--one idea he put forth in an interview was to dig up the White House rose garden and replace it with basic vegetables, plants he thought would better befit his less-than-imperial presidency. His economic ideas seemed just as obviously designed for that air of out-of-step impossibility...
...Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, Bombeck...