Word: grassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pizza-stand proprietor gets his coffeepot going, and chilled citizens begin to line up, hoping to get a grip on the morning. A camper rolls into the parking area, and within 30 seconds after it stops, four men of assorted ages have jumped out, driven two stakes into the grass and started pitching horseshoes. People drag aluminum chairs and cases of beer out of the backs of their cars and lug them over to the lawn that faces the bandstand. Encouraging smells begin to drift from the beef barbecue pit. The day's first Frisbee frizzes across the gray...
Behind the bandstand, over by a string of boxcars parked on a siding, Bill Cameron, 17, of Orange, Vt., and his father Enoch, 71, are standing back-to-back in the wet grass, practicing their competition tunes. The two Koehler girls from Westfield, Mass., ten-year-old Gretchen and seven-year-old Rebecca, skitter about giggling until their mother Shirley tells them to get down to business and start practicing. They are astonishingly good. Shirley, who is a nurse, says that neither she nor her husband Jim, a welding engineer, is at all musical. The girls started playing the violin...
...head hung halfway between anger and disgust. No one notices, least of all the referee, who has just blown another opportunity to penalize an Army defender for a late hit. Jim Acheson, number 31 and senior halfback for the Crimson, plucks for a moment a tuft of grass, then rises slowly, shaking his head, and jogs back to the huddle...
...other candidates, only Charles Yancey, David Scondras and Terry McDermott have even outside chances. However, if the neighborhood bused candidates--Yancey, a Black running for the second time, Scondras, an antiarson expert, and political unknown Craig Lankhorst, a West Indian--run strongly, it will encourage a grass-roots, city-wide progressive political movement. That political movement, begun behind State Rep. Mel King's mayoral candidacy two years ago, could become the deciding constituency in the next mayor's race...
...effort to develop "an active and vocal response to conservatism on a grass-roots level" a Harvard sophomore is setting up chapters of a national progressive organization on 30 collegecampuses statewide, including Harvard...