Word: grassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contrary to the saying, the grass isn't always greener on the other side of the fence. Or so one man says. Anyway, your hour's up and it's time to go back to work on your thesis...
...painful to have the season end like this," O'Brien said. "They shut us down. We haven't played on grass in a while--that affected us. We weren't able to carry and receive the ball well...
...decades, Presidents have used the census as a patronage honeypot, dispensing part-time counting jobs to allies at the grass roots. Even Jimmy Carter, who championed civil service reform, signed a waiver in 1979 so that his followers could be hired. But George Bush has apparently missed the 1990 census gravy train...
...Salaam, Museveni was regarded with some trepidation in Western capitals when he emerged from the bush. Now the assessment is almost unanimously positive. Museveni, says a U.S. diplomat in Kampala, has been "a very effective leader. He has subdued tribal rebels in the north, instituted a sort of grass-roots democracy, and even managed to hold a successful national election. Politically, things are as good as they...
Another variable which enters into today's action is Brown's home-field advantage. Stephenson Field has an astroturf surface with a large crown. The ball tends to roll much more freely on artificial turf than on grass, assisting Brown's territorial game...