Word: grassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adopting, the future is likely to hold greater challenges. A Pueblo Indian, she suffers from fetal alcohol syndrome as well as prenatal exposure to angel dust and probably cocaine. For a long time she was so sensitive to tactile stimulation that it made her hysterical to walk on carpeting, grass or sand. She has been diagnosed as mildly retarded. With a good mother's militant optimism, Mary says the Hibbard house will make the difference. "All kids need structure," she explains. "But special-needs kids need it more...
...really hard time with the field," Crimson forward Robin Johnston said. "They definitely knew how to play on turf, and we didn't. On grass, it would have been different. We tried to play our normal game, and it just didn't work...
...fourth straight game with strained knee ligaments. Midfielder Heather Jackson, who sprained her ankle in last Friday's overtime loss to Brown, also stayed on the sidelines...The Crimson's schedule resumes this Saturday against the University of Vermont in Burlington. The Catamounts play on natural, all-American grass. Outdoors. Bring long underwear...
Even landlubbers who find yacht racing about as exciting as watching grass grow might get a charge out of the litigious storm swirling around the America's Cup. After the San Diego Yacht Club defeated a challenger from New Zealand a year ago, a New York judge took the Cup away from skipper Dennis Conner and awarded it to the loser. The judge reasoned that Conner had violated the "spirit" of the competition by racing a featherweight catamaran as a last-minute response to New Zealand's extra-long 132-ft. monohull...
Along the Rhine in 1945, barbed-wire fences enclosed tightly packed masses of German prisoners of war. Without tents, they dug crude foxholes and hoarded scraps of cardboard against the bitter spring weather. Without food or water, some resorted to eating grass and drinking their urine. Many died of dysentery, pneumonia, exhaustion, brought on by the cruel neglect of their American captors...