Word: bungalow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...palpable. Gerald Robinson, with 22 years of seniority, feels secure in his GM production job and agrees with Bush about capital punishment. But he will vote Democratic this time because he fears that Reaganomics is ruining American industry. James and Martha Hurry are doing all right today; their snug bungalow was paid off many years ago, and they receive $20,000 a year in pension payments. But Hurry, 72, worries about being wiped out financially if he has to enter a nursing home. He repents his vote for Reagan because "ten years ago, I thought I was pretty well...
...door of their modest brick bungalow, Doug Quimby and his wife Frankie greet the 37-year-old Robinson fondly, with gruff good humor. The three have met before, and the Quimbys know why their friend is here. Doug, 51, is slated to play a major role in a folk opera that Walter has just completed, and the two men need to run through some changes in the score. In addition to this contribution, the Quimbys offer their visitor an entree to gospel singers in the small, isolated churches of coastal Georgia. Untrained choir singers such as these will...
...second day of Losar, the Tibetan New Year, the man who is a living Buddha to roughly 14 million people gives a public audience. By 8 a.m. the line of petitioners stretches for half a mile along the winding mountain road outside his airy bungalow -- leathery mountain men in gaucho hats, long-haired Westerners, little girls in their prettiest silks, all the 6,000 residents of the village and thousands more. Later, 30 dusty visitors just out of Tibet crowd inside and, as they set eyes on their exiled leader for the first time in almost three decades, fill...
...execution seemed to provide no immediate finality to a gruesome crime. In New Orleans, Rault's aging, infirm parents attended a small wake and funeral for their son, then retreated in grief behind the doors of their modest bungalow. Observed his aunt, Sister Mary Ruth Rault, a Roman Catholic nun who had been one of the official witnesses at Rault's execution: "This has been five long years of living death...
Farther from the Iranian rocket launchers, a limited sense of normality remains. A few shops are open, and people walk the mostly empty streets. In & the broken landscape of Basra, however, things may not be what they seem. Standing before a bungalow that she called home, Nazha Shouket Buny, 37, described herself as the only resident of her area who had not fled. "Basra is my city," said Buny, who was smartly dressed in a white sweater and brown skirt. "I am going to stay here." Yet her devotion to a district that lacked food, water and electricity seemed suspect...