Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Blake, who was The Crimson's Male Athlete of the Year, competed this week as a pro at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, a grass-court tournament in Newport, R.I., beating a former Wimbledon finalist in his debut...
...McCain's reform plan to resonate with grass-roots Republicans, he must pitch it in explicitly conservative terms. "You're never going to get a simpler, flatter tax code unless you reform the way we finance our campaigns," McCain says. "And you're never going to get rid of pork-barrel spending and make government smaller until you remove the special interests that dominate our political process." Sources close to McCain say he and his co-sponsor, Democrat Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, will threaten to bring Senate business to a halt this month unless G.O.P. leaders bring up the bill...
...home: the Everglades. An 18,000-sq.-mi. expanse of shimmering water, waving sawgrass and emerald tree hammocks, it is one of America's most vital but abused natural treasures. Like the endangered wood storks that glide overhead, the fewer than 500 Miccosukees rely upon this unique "river of grass" for their survival as a tribe. And they rely on gaming profits to buy the multimillion-dollar legal and scientific clout they need to protect the Everglades. "The money allows us to be like the cowboys," says Cypress, 48. "We can bring in the hired guns...
Members of the Eviction Free Zone (EFZ), a grass-roots community organization fighting rising rents in Cambridge, met Monday with other Cantabrigians to discuss their goals and strategies for the coming months...
...this out early in October, from a good teacher if not a famous one: Grays Hall, a Yard dorm. The method of instruction: I fell down the Grays Hall stairs, in front of a well populated Yard that took no notice of the first-year sprawled unceremoniously on the grass...