Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There is no end to our effrontery. In Arizona a mutant Chinese grass carp, the sterile triploid amur, has been released into the ponds and water hazards of golf courses to keep the water free of entangling weeds lest golf balls be lost or the scenery spoiled. An African fish, the tilapia, cruises irrigation canals devouring any growth that might impede the water flow, but it endangers the Colorado River's sport fish. Coast to coast, European starlings darken the skies. A century ago, the first few were released in New York City by a reader of Shakespeare bent...
...ignored us for seven hours before he chose to speak to us. He overtly supports the project without having any knowledge of the Harlem grass roots' community perspective," Wilson said...
Barnes sees communism, as practiced in the Soviet Union and its former satellites "as a corruption of a set of principles, at base idealistic which went wrong." he recalls being impressed by Gunter Grass's essays, "Two States-One Nation?) which, although enormously popular during the euphoria which accompanied the unification of Germany, were eerily prescient, foretelling the economic and social troubles which are now plaguing that country...
...main reason Malcolm X told his story to Alex Haley was to put his life up there as an example for African Americans -- or anybody, really -- that you could change your life around if you really apply yourself. He says, "Look, people, I was a criminal. I peddled grass, I was a steerer, I was a criminal, I snorted cocaine. I got so depraved that even in prison I was called Satan." But he turned it around...
Robb Hirsch, the 119th Captain of the Harvard Crimson, will step onto that vestigial plot of grass across the river for the last time today in a crimson uniform...