Word: backyard
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...Catholicism. He was an intimidating, authoritarian figure who revered Senator Joseph McCarthy and Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. The elder Buchanan proudly reminded his brood that they were the descendants of Mississippi Confederates who fought to save Old Dixie. Not for the Buchanans the Leave It to Beaver homilies of backyard-barbecue morality. Pop fostered a sense of clannishness, of us-against-them resentment that made his children ever vigilant. Pat attended Mass each day, prayed every night and made the sign of the Cross before basketball free throws. He studied hard and played hard and probably got into at least...
...combatants gathered on a vast field. At one end, an ill-kempt mob is armed mainly with monkey wrenches and backyard barbecue forks. At the other end is a neat line of arrogant-looking men in red suspenders, ready to defend themselves with squash racquets. Behind them, their leader sits erect on a Trojan horse, wearing two powdered wigs. There is silence. Then the air is pierced by a maniacal giggle...
When Randy Foley opened the door of his Chatham St. home on the evening of Jan. 7, Kayla, his 18-month-old Great Dane, darted toward the fence, began howling and tried to dig a tunnel into his neighbor's backyard...
...looked over the fence and just saw a huge snow drift some four feet high...so I opened the gate and she ran into the [neighbor's] backyard and started digging away into the snow bank," Foley said...
...women's rights--an outspoken head of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women who is host of a popular weekend show on KFI-AM, a top-rated talk-radio station. But when hundreds of journalists from around the world pitched camp in Bruce's backyard, the 33-year-old former publicist lost no opportunity to share her views about Simpson's guilt and the issue of domestic violence. Soon she was being featured on the evening news, Nightline and Larry King Live. On the day of the verdict, Bruce turned out 1,500 supporters...