Word: grassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supposed to be a political snapshot that just might catch a picture of the grass-roots trends in Western Europe. But the image that developed last week was blurred and distorted, a reflection of a Continent scowling and at odds with itself. Voters from the ten-nation European Community had gone to the polls to elect 434 members of the European Parliament, the largely ineffectual assembly that holds fading hopes of linking national politics to a united Europe. If the 60% turnout was low by European standards, voters could hardly be blamed: the campaign had focused on narrow national issues...
Removing the track will make Harvard, stadium one of the few all-grass Olympic sized stadiums in the country, according to Scott Le Tellier, U.S. Olympic Committee soccer director...
Although Harvard had planned to lay grass over its stadium track will make Harvard had planned to lay grass over its stadium track, the Olympic Committee agreed to finance...
...Olympic Committee had three criteria for a summer games stadium, Le Tellier explained. The stadium of choice had to be all grass, it had to be large enough, and it had to be available. Harvard's stadium was one of the few to pass the Olympic test on all three counts...
...sham, and I don't want to forget it. For most of my four years, the grass has been brown and my shower curtain has been covered with scum. I have memories of this place, some good and many bad; I want to keep them all. When I'm riding a special bus to a reunion Boston Pops concert, I want to remember the days I trudged through snow or rain because the shuttle service is insufficient. When I'm eating at the Union again, I hope I'll think about the 11 days Harvard kept me from my diploma...