Word: backyard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Said one police source: "This guy was in our backyard the whole time...
Price ran through the Western Ave. parking lot, where he was being handcuffed, to Franklin St. Three police officers chased Price and finally captured him in the backyard of a Franklin St. house. In June 1990, Price stood trial for that charge and was acquitted...
...pusillanimous policies have discredited all the institutions that touched the conflict. The UN, in the midst of a post-Cold Wal renaissance when the Yugoslav conflict began, now stands guilty of abetting Serb aggression. NATO, fresh from victory against the Warsaw pact has shown itself impotent in its own backyard...
...appreciate the primal urge to descend from the stands in order to exact revenge on the victorious Elis. After all, they had the poor taste to win by almost twenty points in our own backyard...
...recent day, the youngest children gathered around the small pond in Helmer's backyard, collecting water samples and aquatic plants for study. In the former living room, an older group struggled with the intricacies of urban planning -- where to put the power plants, whether to build a highway, how big to make the municipal hospital -- by playing a complex computer game called SimCity 2000 on the school's five new Macintoshes. Members of a third group could be found in the garage, sanding and sawing to create kid-size furniture of their own design...