Word: grassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Messed up little boys and girls are not at all uncommon in the grass-green and asphalt-black world of suburbia. They romp cheerily among the trees and mopeds, chattering about Betamaxes and analysts. Often it's so hard to distinguish one from another amid the swirl of LaCoste and Adidas, that concerned parents just scoop up a convenient horde at sunset, hoping to extract their own offspring by dinner time...
Perhaps the best example of grass roots participation came from an obscure group known as the Pachyderms, who in one week expanded their operation to 29 states. Just who are the Pachyderms? "A sort of Kiwanis club for Republicans," one delegate from Missouri said, as Mr. Reagan was accepting the nomination. Then, sotta voce, he added, "If this catches on, the Democrats will copy us, and it will be good for the country." But the delegate didn't stay to hear the conclusion of the acceptance speech; a week of incessant participation, he said, had tired him out. And most...
...Helms of North Carolina, who reveled in the admiration of a coterie of delegates as he railed against the Panama Canal Treaties and the recognition of mainland China. But by now the Reagan forces were alarmed at the attacks on the platform by what some of them called the "grass eaters and know nothings." Congressman Jack Kemp and Richard Allen, Reagan's top foreign policy adviser, managed to prevent any alteration of the party planks on Panama and China. Allen emphasized that Reagan, while deploring the brusque way Carter severed U.S. relations with Taiwan, had no intention of restoring them...
...final army of cleaners swept through the capital last week, cutting grass and scooping up litter. Several main thoroughfares were repaved and public buildings were repainted. A foreign ambassador was surprised to find 20 uninvited painters at work on his residence. "The place needed it," he shrugged...
...will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur Till in her ashes she lie buried. The gates of mercy shall be all shut up, And the flesh'd soldier, rough and hard of heart, In liberty of bloody hand shall range With conscience wide as hell, mowing like grass Your fresh fair virgins and your flow'ring infants...