Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...claimed a chunk of Christmas in 1995 with her Home for the Holidays TV special featuring Hillary Clinton. Many people ceded Easter to her after 1994, when she counseled readers to celebrate by taking a fresh ham, roasting it for five hours and serving it garnished with organically grown grass that had been cut early that morning with the dew still on it. Never mind that most of her magazine's 5 million readers still buy the honey-baked version at Boston Market or, horrors!, take it out of a can. Even the subscribers who don't work may think...
...says, "Uh-oh, here comes a long dry spell." Droughts seem deceptively serene, no more threatening than an endless expanse of blue, cloudless sky. They unfold in slow motion, a tempo ill suited to daily headlines and TV-news reports. Covering one is like sitting around watching the grass not grow. In The Grapes of Wrath, his 1939 novel about the Depression-era Dust Bowl, John Steinbeck captured the idling, hallucinatory rhythm of drought: "The brown lines on the corn leaves widened and moved in on the central ribs. The weeds frayed and edged back toward their roots...
...Canal Park now stands empty, with grass growing in the remains of an old building's concrete foundation...
...represents coming full-circle for most members of the Class of 1996. Like generations of Harvard students before them, they began their collage careers inside its walls. They woke up to the tolling of the Memorial Church bells, read novels under the majestic oaks and played football on the grass. Now they return to the Yard, the place where it all began, so that they might celebrate...
...University's expenditures also verge on mandatory. For Commencement at Harvard with a capital H, there better be plenty of green grass, tents, heraldry and important guests. To the University's credit, Harvard always puts on a good show...