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  Green Spring Gardens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Green Spring Gardens is a "must visit" for everyone in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area.
Green Spring was donated to Fairfax County in 1970 by editor and publisher Michael Straight.
Green Spring's grounds are open dawn to dusk every day of the year.
www.fairfaxcounty.gov /parks/gsgp   (270 words)

  
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GREEN rushes, long and thick, standing up above the edge of the ditch, told the hour of the year as distinctly as the shadow on the dial the hour of the day.
Green and thick and sappy to the touch, they felt like summer, soft and elastic, as if full of life, mere rushes though they were.
Swept from notched hawthorn leaves, broad-topped oak-leaves, narrow ash sprays and oval willows; from vast elm cliffs and sharp-taloned brambles under; brushed from the waving grasses and stiffening corn, the dust of the sunshine was borne along and breathed.
www.geocities.com /~stillmeadow/pageant.htm   (6870 words)

  
 CBC Sports Online: NFL: Game Recap   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Green lofted a perfect ball to Kennison, who had put a stop-and-go move on to get open down the right side of the field and he then outran the Green Bay defenders to cross the goal line with 8:47 left in overtime.
Green Bay proceeded to march 80 yards in 11 plays and capped the drive on Favre's one-yard touchdown pass to Bubba Franks for a 7-0 lead with 7:14 left in the first quarter.
Green then drove his team downfield and forged a 14-14 tie as he connected with Morton for a 10-yard TD reception with 9:16 left in the half.
www.cbc.ca /sports/stats/nfl/recap/852   (1410 words)

  
 ESPN.com: NFL - Game Plans: Packers-Bears
Regardless of their talent, the Green Bay Packers are always as confident as any team in the league because they have Brett Favre.
When Green rushes for 130 yards and catches passes for another 60 yards, the Packers are tough to beat.
Green Bay needs to make life as difficult as possible for the depleted Bears, who already have to contend with both Favre and Green.
espn.go.com /nfl/gameplans/week5/gnbchi.html   (1077 words)

  
 WSJ Sports
Green still made the Pro Bowl for the second straight time last season, rushing for 1,240 yards to become just the third running back in team history to rush for more than 1,000 yards in three consecutive seasons.
And while Green's two daughters - 6-year-old Ahmani and 1-year-old Myahni - live with their mother in Omaha, they are supposed to come to most of the Packers' home games and will be with Green during the holidays and parts of the offseason.
Green Bay's Al Harris had a 56-yard interception return for a touchdown last week, and he and Mike McKenzie should be able to control a pedestrian receiver corps.
www.madison.com /wisconsinstatejournal/sports/57228.php   (2261 words)

  
 WSJ Sports
GREEN BAY - It is one of those statistics that bowls you over - kind of like what would happen if you were standing between a hard-charging Ahman Green and the goal line.
Green didn't do it alone Sunday, in part because severe cramping forced him to the locker room during the second half to receive intravenous fluids.
While Green's persistent fumbling remains a concern - he and Sherman cited Green's propensity for sweating as the main reason for his two fumbles Sunday - it appears the Packers are willing to deal with it as long as he remains productive.
www.madison.com /wisconsinstatejournal/sports/31978.html   (773 words)

  
 Faeirie Names
Green Knight is a fairy knight, associated with King Arthur's court and the Knights of the Round Table.
Green Lady is a Scottish spirit, a supernatural of the Gruagach tupe that lived in Skip ness Castle by Loch (Lake) Fyne.
Frisky, pesky, tricky, mischievous and loveable...dressed all in green, or with a red cap, small, and originally thought to be the fairy shoemakers who stay round pure springs.
www.angelfire.com /realm2/avalonfaeiries/faeirie_names.htm   (2374 words)

  
 GameCenter: Preview - SuperBowl.com - Official website of Super Bowl XLI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Green Bay Packers look to pull off yet another miracle as they try to win in Philadelphia for the first time in 41 years, and prevent the Eagles from reaching the NFC Championship Game for a third straight season.
Green Bay's Ahman Green, the NFC's top rusher this season, ran for 193 yards on Nov. 10 against an Eagles defense which surrendered an average of 160.8 rushing yards during the nine-game win streak.
Green Bay is 23-2 when RB Green rushes for 100 yards.
www.superbowl.com /gamecenter/preview/NFL_20040111_GB@PHI   (1173 words)

  
 Woods: Packers prove Panthers aren't super - NFL - MSNBC.com
Green had 119 yards and two touchdowns rushing and one touchdown catch.
Not since the Green Bay Packers of 1996-97 has an NFC team made back-to-back trips to the Super Bowl, and the Panthers gave every indication Monday that the streak would reach seven years.
Aside from an offensive line that was so ineffective it produced just 39 yards rushing at fewer than three yards a carry, the Panthers also lost their A-list receiver in Steve Smith, who broke his left fibula and will be out for several weeks.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5995342   (598 words)

  
 Packers.com » Gameday » 2000 » November 6
But after Green Bay called a timeout, which allowed the steady rain to further drench the turf, holder Mitch Berger was unable to control the snap, and Anderson was denied the opportunity to close the game.
A 10-yard run by Ahman Green gave his team a first down, but he gained just one yard on the next play, and Brett Favre's incomplete pass to Green on second down resulted in a third-and-9.
Two Green rushes later, the Packers were faced with a third-and-4 from the Minnesota 43.
www.packers.com /gameday/2000/11-06   (1345 words)

  
 Schulers Books (The Life of the Fields - 1/32)
THE FIELD PLAY: I. Green rushes, long and thick, standing up above the edge of the ditch, told the hour of the year as distinctly as the shadow on the dial the hour of the day.
The may-bloom had fallen, and among the hawthorn boughs were the little green bunches that would feed the redwings in autumn.
The whole office of Matter is to feed life--to feed the green rushes, and the roses that are about to be; to feed the swallows above, and us that wander beneath them.
www.schulers.com /books/ri/l/The_Life_of_the_Fields   (1299 words)

  
 KUsports.com - : Week 2: Toledo 44, KU 26   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Green carried the Jayhawks on his back on the next drive, gaining almost all of KU's 70 yards.
Green's touchdown was set up by a sack and forced fumble by Nick Reid.
Green finished with 180 yards and three touchdowns on 39 carries, and Dawson rushed 38 times for 160 yards and two scores.
www.kusports.com /news/xfactor/story/111318   (1088 words)

  
 NFL.com - NFL Game Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Green Bay QB Brett Favre passes for 2 TDs, including 66-yarder to WR Javon Walker.
Packers RB Ahman Green rushes 27 times for 154 yards.
Packers RB Ahman Green rushes for 90 yards & 1 TD.
www.nfl.com /gamenotes/NFL_20061210_GB@SF   (489 words)

  
 GREEN APPLE QUICKSTEP
A standard fife tune in southwestern Pa., usually known by the first alternate title, though this version was played slowly and deliberately, states Bayard (1981), and was different in its tonality, alternating between G and D instead of being solidly in G, as in other versions.
Greene County is in southwestern Pa. Source for notated version: Samuel Palmer (Fayette County, Pa., 1944) [Bayard].
AKA and see "The Green Banks of Rossbeigh," "The Kerry Reel [1]," "The Witch of the Glen." Irish, Reel.
www.ibiblio.org /fiddlers/GREEN.htm   (1901 words)

  
 Packers run all over Panthers in opener - NFL - MSNBC.com
Green Bay's Ahman Green, left, celebrates with teammate Javon Walker after scoring a touchdown.
Green scored on touchdown runs of 3 and 6 yards and rushed for 119 yards against a Carolina defense that only gave up four individual 100-yard rushing games last season.
Green Bay took possession of the ball and handed off to Green, who steadily pounded away at Carolina’s defense.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5994289   (908 words)

  
 SportingNews.com Fantasy Source - NFL : Green rushes for 137 yards in Packers victory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Ahman Green rushed 21 times for 137 yards to lead a ground game that gained 261 yards.
Green Bay took a 27-20 lead on a 12-yard touchdown pass from Favre to Walker on third-and-11 with 13:14 left.
Green Bay dominated the first half, racking up 317 total yards, an average of 8.3 per play.
fantasy.sportingnews.com /nfl/articles/20031029/501779.html   (763 words)

  
 NFL.com - NFL Game Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Green Bay QB Brett Favre tosses 3 TD passes (3, 8, 2).
Packers RB Ahman Green rushes for 136 yards & 1 TD.
Green's teams are 27-5 (.844) when he has 100+ rushing yards.
www.nfl.com /gamenotes/NFL_20061119_NE@GB   (467 words)

  
 FOREST RESEARCH NOTES: SEEDING AND GRAZING TRIALS OF STIPA ON FOOTHILL RANGES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
At this season, when all of the vegetation was green, the cattle grazed more on the stipa plants than on the annuals, probably because of the greater height of the leafage on the perennial grasses.
The cattle first grazed heaviest in the swale parts of the field, selecting the green rushes and then the partly green introduced annual legumes and Hardinggrass and the green pampasgrass.
In the spring when green annuals were abundant and in the summer when a choice of good dry forage was available, the stipa was not grazed.
www.cnga.org /archive/greenbentley1957.php   (2548 words)

  
 Green Grow the Rushes - Moviefone
Synopsis: Though Green Grow the Rushes has the look and feel of an Ealing comedy, the film was actually produced through the auspices of British Lion.
Green Grow the Rushes (1951) Is there any documentation on the story of this movie.
Green Grow the Rushes - Cast & Crew, movie showtimes, plot, synopsis, exclusive features, trailers, clips, theater listings, reviews, message boards, dvd, videos, rentals and more on Moviefone.
movies.aol.com /movie/green-grow-the-rushes/1014571/main   (169 words)

  
 NFL Preseason Preview - Tennessee (0-3) At Green Bay (1-2) - NFL
The job of starting the Titans' opener on Sept. 10th against the Jets was thought to be safely in the hands of veteran backup Billy Volek until Monday, when the team unexpectedly signed experienced journeyman Kerry Collins, reportedly infuriating Volek and placing his future with the Titans in doubt.
Green, who is attempting to rebound from a ruptured quadriceps tendon suffered last season, saw his first action of the preseason in this past Monday's loss to the Cincinnati Bengals.
Samkon Gado (13 rushes, 29 yards, 1 TD) and Najeh Davenport (22 rushes, 62 yards), who are battling for the No. 2 rushing job, are expected to see extended minutes, however.
www.wdsu.com /nfl/9769183/detail.html   (654 words)

  
 Chapter Running Leather <i>to</i> Rython of R by Brewer's Phrase & Fable
The allusion is to the practice of strewing floors with rushes before carpets were invented.
Distinguished guests had clean fresh rushes, but those of inferior grade had either the rushes which had been already used by their superiors, or none at all.
Rush-bearing Sunday A Sunday, generally near the time of the festival of the saint to whom the church is dedicated, when anciently it was customary to renew the rushes with which the church floor was strewed.
www.bibliomania.com /2/3/255/1183/23931/2.html   (597 words)

  
 The Story of Pwyll and Rhianon, Second Branch, "The Fates of the Princes of Dyfed" by Kenneth Morris
Here there would be rushes to consider, and the sweet breath of the bog-myrtle; here there would be the small growth of the bilberry on the forest floor, or the darting of a lizard among the sunlit pebbles and mosses; and all these things were a delight to him.
The rushes were full of whisperings when he came to them; such whisperings as seemed to him to hold the whole secrecy of magic, and wonderful, dim, undreamed-of things that would be known only to a few among the druids.
The rushes opened out before him on this side and that; he was at the beginning of a winding water that might lead to the place he desired to reach, and to the harper whose strings and fingers made such a mystery and melody of the marsh.
www.theosociety.org /pasadena/dyfed/fates-3.htm   (13884 words)

  
 Croquet World Online Magazine | News & Features   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
He leaves the hit ball in corner IV, obtaining a rush on Maugham's other ball to 2, but does not get a good rush to 1 on the ball there, ending well over towards corner IV, and having to roll to his point.
Fulford puts a ball near 4 while getting a rush to 1, coming back after the hoop, in a rush, then stopping that ball to 3, clearing the ball from the hoop and getting a rush on the other ball there to his point at hoop 2.
After a split to 2, he has a rush on the ball at the peg to 1, but he gives himself a long hoop to make, and fails.
www.croquetworld.com /1997Archives/Bunbury9.asp   (1825 words)

  
 Packers Edge Vikings 30-27, Stay In Race | NEWS | NFLPLAYERS.COM
MINNEAPOLIS -- For the Green Bay Packers, the slippery situation that accompanied their trip to Minnesota was quite simple.
Favre threw three touchdown passes and running back Ahman Green ran for 137 yards on 21 carries to lead the Packers past the Minnesota Vikings 30-27 Sunday before a record Metrodome crowd of 64,482.
When Green rushes for at least 100 yards, the Packers are 18-1.
www.nflplayers.com /news/news_release.aspx?id=1447   (520 words)

  
 Brown's boot a hoot
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- No one was more surprised when Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren decided to attempt a 58-yard field goal at the end of the first half in yesterday's game against the Green Bay Packers than the kicker who was about to attempt it.
The Packers are now 17-0 when Green rushes for 100-plus yards, and his 118-yard effort yesterday, coupled with his career-best 176-yard night against the Bears on Monday night, gave him his first back-to-back 100-yard games since Weeks 5-6 last season.
Brett Favre's 3-yard run for a first down in the first quarter was the first rushing attempt of the season for the Packers quarterback.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /football/142668_hawkbok06.html   (948 words)

  
 The Welsh Fairy Book: The Swallowed Court
One day, as he was hunting in the Green Forest, a maiden of dazzling beauty rode past him, and he fell in love with her at first sight.
He has resigned the Maid of the Green Forest to me: let her for ever be as she now appears, and never leave my side.
This promise have I kept, for the deep waters have overwhelmed Prince and palace, and the flag-reeds and green rushes already grow in the banqueting chamber.
www.sacred-texts.com /neu/celt/wfb/wfb49.htm   (1083 words)

  
 Packers Melt Under Monday Night Spotlight - News
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- A tough loss for the Packers in the dwindling minutes of Monday Night Football.
Ahman Green rushed for a team-record 192 yards and scored on a 45-yard run and a 24-yard screen pass.
He's rushed for more than 1,000 yards for the fourth straight season.
www.wtov9.com /news/2627305/detail.html   (418 words)

  
 Fiction: One Is All Alone, by Jay Lake
You kneel by a burbling rill in a patch of rushes, vigorously green in spite of the lateness of the season.
Clutching a torn bunch of rushes, you raise your hand toward the Green Man. His smile is thorns as the forest pierces your heart and you rise bark-clad to live a thousand thousand days in his thrall, alone and unafraid.
You dream of blood and dying -- great, slow oaken dreams -- but the living spirit of the forest is too strong within you.
www.strangehorizons.com /2003/20030120/rushes-one.shtml   (745 words)

  
 Fiction: Green Grow the Rushes, Oh
Green Grow the Rushes, Oh his song is an old English counting song, in the manner of "The Twelve Days of Christmas," although it has a different tune.
One is one and all alone and ever more shall be so.
Two, two, the lily-white boys, dresséd all in green, oh.
www.strangehorizons.com /2003/rushes/rushes.shtml   (413 words)

  
 Rockets Big First Half Fuels 31-21 Victory Over Bowling Green :: Parmele rushes for 124 yards and a touchdown to lead ...
Rockets Big First Half Fuels 31-21 Victory Over Bowling Green :: Parmele rushes for 124 yards and a touchdown to lead Toldeo.
Parmele rushes for 124 yards and a touchdown to lead Toldeo.
Bowling Green's Anthony Turner hit Corey Partidge with a 6-yard pass to pull within two touchdowns at the half.
www.cstv.com /sports/m-footbl/stories/112106aes.html   (282 words)

  
 Bluegrass Messengers
Green Linnet GLCD 1175, Cherish the Ladies - "New Day Dawning." Green Linnet GLCD 1187, Cherish the Ladies - "One and All: the best of Cherish the Ladies" (1998).
OTHER NAMES: “Come Let Us Sing;” “Twelve Apostles” "Green Grow the Rashes" "The East Neuk of Fife," "Grant's Rant," "Irish Whiskey," "Over the Hills and Far Away," "Paddy Caught/Got a Rat," "Paddy Killed the/a Rat," "Paddy Run the/a Rat," “Bonnie Are the Hurdles, O!” “I'll Sing You One-Ho”
Chorus: The down bed, the feather bed, The bed among the rushes O, Yet all the beds is not so soft As the bellies of the lassies O Chorus:
www.bluegrassmessengers.com /master/greengrow2.html   (609 words)

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