Word: backyarders
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wish it were merely cute coincidence that the Democrats chose Boston to host their national convention next year, before the Republicans managed a convention coup in the Yankees’—and Sept. 11’s—backyard. But fate, I like to think, intended a wakeup call for the defeatist Dems: shake off the Curse of bin Laden while you can, before home for you becomes a ghetto of idle opposition...
...seems that Flanders, 50, a retired concrete producer, has taken his hobby to an extreme. It began harmlessly enough when he laid a picturesque model-train track in his backyard; his wife's pretty tulips remained intact for the most part. Then he decided that the trains needed indoor storage, and he ran the track into the barn. After that he added rails over the driveway, and before long, he was digging a 4-ft.-wide strip across the yard. From there the park has kept growing and growing. "It's just, as we started building things and we kept...
...hometown lies on the dense outskirts of Philadelphia. The houses on my block are closely packed, and our backyards are about the size of my single in Pfoho. Which is fine. My family grows potted plants on the porch, and we keep our backyard tree trimmed. My next-door neighbor, however, has not made the same aesthetic decision, and for this she creates and suffers under a variety of problems...
That is, after all, the Balestracci way and has been for years. Their competitiveness in backyard games as children was a big reason each became a three-sport star at New Bedford High School...
That is, after all, the Balestracci way and has been for years. Their competitiveness in backyard games as children was a big reason each became a three-sport star at New Bedford High School...