Word: grassed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...industry association head, after detailing his reasons for hiring one of D.C.'s best-known lobbyists, cheerfully predicted a popular grass-roots uprising that would show Congress just how much the Republic detests the over-regulation of vitamins...
...construction, which involved clearing the backyard of trees and grass and replacing it with gravel and pavement, was one of many projects in the past three months the landlord authorized. Many of the tenants believe that the construction is an attempt to force old tenants to leave in order to find new tenants willing to pay higher rent...
...before the war, but has not worked since the fighting began. His family survives on dwindling supplies from the U.N. "It just isn't enough," he says. "All we get is some flour, rice and oil. The children are sick all the time." He supplements the U.N. rations with grasses, mostly broadleaf weeds from surrounding hills that look a little like cabbage but, according to the children, taste much too bitter. They dip small pieces of bread into the unpalatable grass soup, eating only enough to stop their gnawing hunger...
...change the minds of their neighbors and bring the movement home. That also involves tremendous risks. Says Rod Harrington, a gay farmer in northwest Missouri: "The idea in rural America is that gays and lesbians exist -- we just don't want to know about them." And while the grass-roots strategy may win friends and influence neighbors, it can also bring about taunts, threats and injury -- if not worse...
Hopeful East Europeans may not be aware of that. On the grass of Slubice's Bermuda Triangle stands a group of well-dressed young Romanians -- none really the victim of political persecution, discussing the newly erected barriers they face. "How exactly," one asks, "can you immigrate legally into Germany?" The frustrating answer...