Word: backyard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is a family in the U.S. with a just grievance against the CIA, it is the Olsons of Frederick, Md. The widowed mother, her married daughter and two grown sons felt compelled last week to call a press conference in the backyard of the mother's rural home to talk about what they had endured. They wanted everyone to know how an agency of their Government had driven Frank R. Olson -the man they knew as husband and father-to commit suicide, and then left them for 22 years to wonder...
...Mathews got to know Ford while working on the Bicentennial Council. HEW's traditional constituency on Capitol Hill, the liberal Democratic social activists, are likely to give Mathews a tough going-over before approving him, simply because he is a largely unknown quantity from George Wallace's backyard. For the same reason, the Republican right wing, which has found several of Ford's appointments too liberal for its liking, is at first look pleased with the selection. Those who know Mathews well think both groups may be in for some surprises...
...there was something else too. What was thought of by the Kennedy's as something that everyone would want to have in their own backyard turned out to be something ugly and repulsive to its prospective neighbors...
...Frisbee throw best known to run-of-the-backyard players-holding the plastic disk parallel to the ground and flipping it forward with a backhand motion-is of limited use in Ultimate Frisbee. It is too easily blocked. Ultimate stars have developed a special repertory of hard-to-stop releases. Among them...
Lissa Muscatine grew up as a tomboy. While she was an elementary school kickball captain and a backyard basketball and touch football star, she did not play any varsity sport in junior high or high school. In fact, before she emerged as one of the leaders of the 'Cliffe hoop squad last winter, she had not played organized basketball at any level. "I didn't play basketball in school," Muscatine said, "because I was trying to get out of my tomboy image. Instead I skied or played tennis, as that was more accepted...