Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Seldom has such a complicated knot of racial politics and hagiographic pride been expressed with such economy. Director Spike Lee's baseball hat emblazoned with a silver X -- created to promote his forthcoming film on Malcolm X -- is grass-roots iconography of a high order. Two years ago, the ubiquitous- superhero-logo-of-choice was that of a white playboy-vigilante who dresses like a bat; now it is a real-life black pimp turned philosopher...
...presence has permeated the West for hundreds of years, there is still room for wonder -- now perhaps more than ever. In an era when scientists debate the causes of the birth of the universe, both the adoration and the conflict attending Mary have risen to extraordinary levels. A grass-roots revival of faith in the Virgin is taking place worldwide. Millions of worshippers are flocking to her shrines, many of them young people. Even more remarkable are the number of claimed sightings of the Virgin, from Yugoslavia to Colorado, in the past few years...
...West Palm Beach with interviews of prospective jurors, the Kennedy family could count on two of its traditional assets. It has a good legal team (at least $1 million of the Kennedy fortune will be spent on lawyers, investigators, psychologists, pollsters and experts on everything from jury selection to grass stains), and it has the good luck of a semibotched police investigation that did not begin gathering evidence at the Kennedy Palm Beach compound until two weeks after the alleged crime took place...
While Cyr was "clearly cruising too comfortably" and banking on almost sure victory, Myers was "uncomfortable" with his position and conducted a frenzied, grass-roots campaign, Dixon said...
Most observers say Vellucci is a formidable contender, and many say that Independent Jane Sullivan could have a chance, because of her long involvement on the school committee and her grass-roots campaign style. Independent James McSweeney may benefit from his money-intensive campaign...