Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WIMBLEDON: Boris Becker, who won his first Wimbledon championship in 1985 at the age of 17 and dominated the grass at the All England Club for a decade after, will not play there again. After losing to Pete Sampras in the quarterfinal Thursday, Becker said he was through. Although he won the event three times and finished second another four in the past 14 years, Becker felt that age 31 he could no longer play at a high enough level to win. "I feel very relieved," he said afterwards. "I feel I've come to the end of the road...
...tightly contested even in indirect elections. Candidates for nomination are grilled by their peers who want to know what they have done to advance local prosperity. To get on the short list for selection by the village representatives, "we really make the candidates sweat," says Li Xiumin. The grass-roots representatives vote with their guts, she says, so "anyone who has tarnished his record or become disliked by the villages will be rejected." Her job on the county committee as an All China Women's Federation representative is appointive, but, she says, "if I were just an armchair bureaucrat, they...
...fact, one could even argue that, had the Princeton game been in Cambridge instead of New Jersey, Harvard would have had a very good shot at winning. In Princeton's only Ivy game on grass, Yale took the favorites into overtime before losing, 3-2. The Tigers won their five astroturf Ivy games by a combined score...
Harvard, for its part, always seemed much more comfortable on grass. On the natural fields, Harvard was 9-4, going 4-0 in Ivy games, giving two top-10 teams (UConn and North-eastern) nailbiting scares. Moreover the Harvard beat LaSalle, 3-0, on its grass field after having only packed astroturf shoes because LaSalle did not fill out all the paperwork to rent a turf field...
...reading period and exams this spring, I began to realize that Harvard was causing me to take food for granted. So for peace of mind I would take a beautiful crunchy Granny Smith apple out to the bank of the Charles every day, sit down on a patch of grass, close my eyes, try to recreate my tabula rasa and slowly concentrate on each and every bite until even the core was gone. For the brief moments that the juice stored in the white center would be forced from the apple's pores and into my mouth, the outline...