Word: grassed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with chief interplay rival Walter F. Mondale and he is widely described as "the only Democrat who can beat Reagan." Yet the question remains, as Mondale has put it, whether Glean is really a "true Democrat." He made it to the Senate largely on his glory, not on the grass roots meeting-hall, Humphreyesque training that Mondale and others boast. He has troubles appealing to the traditional Democratic constituencies of minorities and labor. If anything, The Right Staff clearly separates the appearance of that admirable trait from its actual presence. And is widens the gap in the image of John...
Each of the two candidates lives with his large family in the rough Boston neighborhood where he was born and raised. Both started their political careers at the grass roots, and spent most of the past decade serving in the Massachusetts state legislature. And in this year's keenly contested election for mayor, the two men were politically the most leftward in the race, both running on a promise to shift money and urban-planning energies away from glamorous downtown and harbor-front development toward rebuilding Boston's neglected working-class neighborhoods. Their populist appeals proved so evenly...
With the notable exception of the defense issue, there were signs at Brighton that a touch of grass-roots democracy was creeping into the party. The rank and file in unions and constituency parties boldly voted against their leaders' choices. Moreover, five extreme leftists were expelled from the party for their leading roles in a faction called the Trotskyist Militant Tendency. The conference also moved toward moderation in its stance on the European Community: whereas during the election campaign Labor had pledged to pull Britain out of the E.G., the conference voted to stay in for the full term...
...Nadine Gordimer. Günter Grass...
...tongue. But the award to Golding, a comfortable Englishman with no extreme political opinions, must give pause even to the staunchest defenders of the Nobel experiment. Can those charged with making the awards tell quality when they see it? Golding is fine, to be sure, but not before Gordimer, Grass and Greene. And, in alphabetical order, not before Kobo Abe, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino...