Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...victory was also the Crimson's first of the season on artificial turf. Its home field is grass. About 40 percent of the teams nationwide play on astroturf, so teams must be able to excel on both...
Would such an independent, grass-roots operation still be recognizable--to outsiders or worshippers--as Catholic? Evangelical Protestant Richard Mouw, president of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, thinks it may not: "A lot of us Protestants wish we had a stronger sense of the teaching and shepherding authority of the church, whereas Catholics are loosening up on that. There's a kind of passing each other in opposing directions." He adds, "Many of us on the Protestant side of things worry a little about the breakdown of authority in the Catholic Church. We simply don't want...
Similar dualities predominate Bergman's camera work. While Johan paints on the heath, the grass appears soft and fresh, but when he has a flashback about killing a boy while fishing on the rocky bluffs, those cliffs become jagged and sinister. And when Johan retreats to the woods, he imagines vampires and ravens tearing him apart in a tangled ravine...
...irate neighbors last night predicted that the proposed project, which involves planting grass and trees in the currently paved space in front of the inn, would destroy their residential tranquility by attracting loud street performers and late-night dwellers...
...hiker on a mountain path, for example, sees a long, curved shape in the grass out of the corner of his eye. He leaps out of the way before he realizes it is only a stick that looks like a snake. Then he calms down; his cortex gets the message a few milliseconds after his amygdala and "regulates" its primitive response...