Word: backyard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really exciting to participate in something that's right in our backyard," said Adams as she stood outside the Rialto tent, stirring a fragrant mixture of herb-roasted ricotta ravioli...
...teacher or another student is immediately under the microscope. But still the tempests come. "Drinking is the biggest problem," says police captain Doug Jacobs, class of '59, "and the parents that allow it." A child from a prominent family has a beer-and-booze party in the backyard while Mom and Dad are not home. There is the boy who dived into drugs and death threats and knives last year after his good friend died, the boy's soft, slashed wrist a souvenir of his journey through grief. He keeps in his planner the business cards of the hospitals that...
...Katy's funeral was hardest for me because she lived right next to me, in my backyard," says Beth, the softball team's shortstop and co-captain. "But I knew Joe since sixth grade, on the bus. He'd make me play with his earlobe...
With school out early, about 50 kids gather in the backyard of the home of a sophomore. There's talk of a keg in the basement, and a steady stream of hopefuls goes downstairs to check it out. They return, disappointed that there's no keg but sporting Cokes spiked with bourbon. There's more smoke in the air than in a New York City bar, and not all of it comes from cigarettes. In a corner of the yard, three kids are smoking marijuana...
After reading your article on genetically modified food, I rented a Rototiller and turned my backyard into a garden [BUSINESS, Sept. 13]. We wonder at the increases in cancer, birth defects, mental illness. And yet we slap 100% tariffs on the E.U. as a backlash for its being fussy about accepting food with firefly genes and zucchini viruses. Maybe we should listen to countries that have been around a thousand years longer than our tyronic republic. As for me, I think I'll have a glass of water for dinner. On second thought, I'll fast. JOSEPH BYRD Holland, Mich...