Word: backyarders
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...Abbas, 30, a carpenter and father of two, says his whole family was mowed down at once. His story: Fedayeen in civilian clothes rolled an antiaircraft gun into his backyard. Abbas, having seen his neighbor protest and get a bullet in the head in front of his children, didn't say a word. "They started firing at American helicopters," he says. "The Americans started returning fire ... We had to leave...
...when he cut a hole in a window screen in the Smarts' kitchen. He plucked Elizabeth at knifepoint from the bedroom she shared with her sister. Who knows whether Elizabeth recognized the man who had worked once on her family's house and now led her through her backyard up into the Wasatch Mountains. Police say the trio spent its first three months camped in the maze of gullies and canyons just a few miles from the Smarts' home...
Currently, Harvard officials are in the midst of planning a massive campus development in Charlesview’s backyard. Top scenarios include moving a cluster of graduate schools or creating a science city on the formerly-industrial land...
...installed on his fast computer, and my mom will make me watch one of her new DVDs on our fancy TV. I no longer have a litter of pen pals to keep me amused, so I think I’ll put the gator in the backyard, pop some cassettes in the ’88 Toyota MR2 and go for a peaceful drive through my antiquated little world...
Although our motivations were very different, Amy and I do not regret our becoming “self-appointed phallus-breakers.” If the choice is between letting indecency stand in our collective backyard and being castigated for an unpopular view, I’ll go with the latter every time...