Word: back-yard
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...also close enough in time for us to feel some comfort with them. The energies they generated are still around, still possible resolution to fine focus. The war for independence (Revolutionary) began a certain growth of sensibilities as, our backs turned safely to England, we merely walked a few short steps to the assumption that we had set our back-yard fences much too close to the east coast and, being a symmetrically oriented people, made plans to also take in the one in the West...
...bound traveler or the back-yard barbecuer, vacation separates are the perennial favorite. To stay comfortable and versatile, the vacationer can wear a one-piece playsuit with an accompanying skirt--on the beach, skirt off; for a lunch date or shopping jaunt, skirt...
Referring to the dry 'twenties, when "speak-easies" and "back-yard sellin'" were rampant, a man in the Harvard Provision said "At all times throughout history there has been some way of getting the stuff...
...popped full-grown from the skulls of its progenitors. It all started when a galaxy of eager veterans poured back into the Dramatic Club roster last fall, ready for action but not for what they called a "tightly-knit social organization." The older men, among them pre-war HD members, set up their own "veterans' workshop" producing unit, chose a play, and were promptly read out of the club for "insubordination" by the insulted hierarchy. Pulling into their own back-yard, the veterans decided to carry the ball alone...
Those who are proficient at putting two and two together will say that there is something Significant about the "first formal school in the history of the United States to study the consequences of alcohol" having its home in the Bulldogs' back-yard...