Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...close to overturning Roe last summer, and many of the nation's other federal judges oppose abortion rights. In the long term, we should work to pass pro-abortion rights legislation in the states. While we should not ignore legal fights, this battle should also be fought at the grass roots. Winning on this level will mean a more secure future for the right to choose...
WITH SWEAT SLIDING DOWN HIS BROW, scientific sleuth James Starrs shoves a long steel probe down through the dirt around the grave of American explorer Meriwether Lewis. A few moments later, his team drags a radar sled across the same neatly clipped grass and around the weathered limestone monument. Their mission: to learn the truth of Lewis' mysterious death by gunshot here on a Tennessee stretch of the Natchez Trace, the old road between Natchez, Mississippi, and Nashville, Tennessee, nearly 183 years ago. Did this pioneer, whose trek to the Pacific Northwest with William Clark has been a staple...
...local news spots edited to 90 seconds a day -- more like 90 minutes. Engelberg's original idea was to steal the settings for Bush's family-values pitch before the President could arrive. The buses fit modest front-yard dimensions. The people flowed easily and eagerly out of the grass roots...
...Muslims were fired from their jobs, we had no money to buy food, and we couldn't get humanitarian help. Our houses were looted by Serbs -- our neighbors." He was detained in a stadium with hundreds of other men; left for days without food or water, they subsisted on grass. Eleven-year-old Lenida Konjic, who was among the group, says that "at night we were so scared we couldn't sleep. We would just wait to be slaughtered." It is not surprising that in exchange for a place in the refugee convoy, 4,000 inhabitants of Bosanski Novi waited...
...foot and is impassable much of the year. We use a pirogue that Kuroda's team has built to resupply his tiny station. Parched by the precarious walk to this point, we cool ourselves with the absolutely pure waters of the Ndoki as we pole through the river grass. Fay thinks he knows why the Pygmies have historically kept to the west side of the river. With ample game in the more accessible forests, they have had no need to risk a crossing. At this point, though, I am not thinking of hardship but rather of the beauty...