Word: grassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hour and a half late. A smaller but more colorful turnout welcomed him in Papua New Guinea, where he presided over the beatification--a prelude to sainthood--of lay catechist Peter To Rot, who was killed by occupying Japanese troops during World War II. Bare-chested greeters wearing grass skirts and tall headdresses danced and sang for the Pope on his arrival...
...threatening development at a committee hearing -- his people call these sympathizers, describe the looming peril and offer to "patch" them directly through to a congressional office to voice their protest. "But only in their own words," stresses Bonner, mindful that congressional staffs are getting better at spotting pseudo-grass-roots ("Astroturf") lobbying. Bonner charges $350 to $500 per call generated...
...information to a neighbor of like interest is a push-button exercise and can easily trigger a chain reaction. The result is a mass mailing that requires neither a centralized mass mailer nor the cost of postage and paper. And the next step can be a genuine, unrehearsed protest -- grass roots, not Astroturf -- that rolls into Congress or the White House via E-mail. Gingrich promises that Thomas will take power away from lobbyists, but if so, that may just mean Thomas has taken over their dirty work. (And after all, why should lobbyists be exempt from technological unemployment...
...relatively large portion of their money from the CPB. "If they pull out the federal funds," says Carlson, "it will probably cause the small stations to crash and burn ... Public broadcasting in small communities touches the life of every person there. We are going to win this at the grass-roots level." Spoken like a true man of the people...
...favorite, and her boxes of clippings and court transcripts about his case sparked the journalists interest in the story. Spending time with an attractive woman who pines for a convicted murderer wears on Jack's young nerves: "You may have seen dogs rolling on something dead in the grass, wanting the scent in their coats. That was the way I wanted...