Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...changes abruptly. Here there are no game fish, no white ibis and hardly any alligators. Where once a complex ecosystem flourished, there are only cattails, acre upon acre of them, stretching as far as the eye can see. Cattails are taking over the eastern Everglades, crowding out the saw grass and choking the algae at the base of the ecosystem's food chain. Cattails now cover 20,000 acres of what was once pristine wetland. Grown thick and tall (some more than 8 ft. high) in the phosphorus-filled runoff of nearby sugar and vegetable plantations, they stand...
Goldfarb is a slight, bearded man, often casually dressed in jeans and black Reeboks. Hardcovered philosophy books line the shelves of his large office, and a depiction of a cow amidst grass with the legend "Outstanding in the Field" adorns a mug sitting in the middle of his somewhat cluttered desk...
...defender of authority in all its manifestations -- legal, familial, religious and military. "Traditional values" made their first tentative debut in the '68 Republican campaign, when Spiro Agnew promised to cure social unrest with a mass spanking. It was in '68 that a "New Right" -- toughened with the grass- roots racism of George Wallace, fortified intellectually by the neoconservatives -- emerged to uphold the traditional icons of God, family and flag...
...advocates a "politics of conversion" in which blacks and other oppressed people would "affirm themselves as human beings, no longer viewing their bodies, minds and souls through white lenses and believing themselves capable of taking control of their own destinies." That would translate into a new surge of grass-roots activism, the building of coalitions between now competing groups, and "large-scale public intervention to ensure access to basic social goods." In other words, critics charge, reconstituting the 1960s...
...success at best. In our opinion, bringing in a private consulting firm from the outside to deal with problems what directly concern us illustrates inefficiency and a lack of consideration for students. In order to better Harvard's race relations atmosphere, we must promote improvements which begin from a grass-roots level. It must begin from the students...