Word: grassed
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More and more schools cancelled their freshman programs until, at the start of this season, only the Ivy League--where tradition dies about as easily as crab grass--still prohibited freshmen from playing on the varsity squads...
...expense of complexity. An explanation of how species evolve may require more attention than Homo televideous is willing to muster. Hang in. Accounts of the author's field experiences convey an excitement of discovery that many readers probably last felt as children examining insects in a patch of grass...
They would have it wrong, of course. Measured in terms of the number of feminist organizations, journals, support groups and T shirts per capita, the U.S. is the world headquarters of the international feminist conspiracy. The paradox is that all this grass-roots energy and commitment has never translated into hard political power: in 1992, the Year of the Woman, 3% of the Senate and 6% of the House of Representatives is female, proportions that lag embarrassingly behind most European nations...
...Field-of-Dreamish feel for Miami. It's a hundred miles or so outside of Cincinnati in Oxford, Ohio. Route 33 passes cobwebbed motels that do business two weekends a year and wooden crosses dedicated to student victims of drunk driving, coming to an end at campus. The grass is green there--greener than any grass I've ever seen. The buildings are clayred--not the smokey look of Grays Hall...
...starting to turn blue, and the bottle was half empty. Joyous Democrats were pirouetting before me, and the night was turning to the old kicking donkey. Swathes of the creatures had circulated out from their encampment in New England, and were chewing grass in the South and West. The Kennedy School's chart showed the Boy Bill well onto the second floor, while Bush had barely clambered up one step...