Word: backyarders
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...from Japan and then had to share a single Army telephone line to get their stories out; the veteran photographer eager to go, who was told by his editors to forget it since the war would be over in a week. For me, the Korean War began in my backyard. Before becoming a TIME correspondent, I was with the American embassy in Seoul, and on Sunday morning of June 25, 1950, I'd been trying to get a patch of grass growing outside the Japanese-style house where I lived with my wife and three small children when a breakfast...
...birthday?" Having forgotten exactly who remained in the car, I fell back on a generic response: "Chocolate cake, pink-frosting flowers and a personalized birthday serenade from a famous teenybopper-heartthrob band?" The voice replied, "No, I want to stay home and play with friends in the backyard...
There's the wife of 23 years, the religious upbringing, the military career as a respected helicopter pilot, the new job as a $13.75-an-hour crane operator, the split-level home with forsythia bushes and a backyard barbecue. Yates sent out Christmas cards and won Army medals for meritorious service. "Bobby is a loving, caring, sensitive son; a fun-loving and giving brother; an understanding, generous and dedicated father who enjoys playing ball, fishing and camping with his kids," the Yates family said in their only statement to date. "Bobby is the type of person you would want...
...OPEC's shadow Monday. They're concerned about the Asian and Latin American economies - too-pricey oil could choke off nascent recoveries and reduce demand down the road. They're mindful of that Gulf War IOU they still owe the U.S. for getting (and keeping) Saddam out of their backyard. And they're not anxious to become one of the Bush-Gore presidential campaign scapegoats. Gore has so far been content to bash Big Oil (the U.S. kind) and Bush the current administration's energy policy; now it's likely to stay that way, with the Saudis and Arab politics...
That changed in 1995. Lind felt a special empathy for the oppressed; she attracted national attention for a series of dynamic social programs she had introduced as pastor to St. Paul's Episcopal Church in inner-city Paterson, N.J. But then a storm brewed in her backyard. Former Newark assistant bishop Walter Righter was charged with heresy for having knowingly ordained an open homosexual named Barry Stopfel...