Word: farmyard
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...case, if you thought the Memorial Church bells were a pain, thank your lucky stars that the Yard is no longer teeming with squealing pigs and other farmyard creatures...
...child, I measured my mental development (and I was the sort of child, I confess, who found his own mental development fascinating) by the complexity of the jigsaw puzzles I was able to complete. As I learned to do puzzles with smaller, more numerous pieces, graduating from simple farmyard scenes to detailed panoramas of city skylines, I felt better and better about myself. The adults in my life seemed to feel better about me too. But then something unexpected happened. One afternoon when I was 10 or so, I finished a 1,000-piece puzzle of the Milky...
...base comedian, Khwaja, short, tousle-haired with a square face, mustache and three days of stubble, gets one of the Pakistani "terrorists" from across the line on the walkie-talkie. Opening greetings rapidly degenerate into an exchange of obscenities featuring enemy womenfolk and various farmyard animals. Allah Mahmad and the boys gathered around him listening are doubled over in laughter...
...Robert Frost wrote a poem called "Out, Out -" in which a boy using a buzz saw to cut stove wood is momentarily careless and cuts his own hand off, and then dies of shock. The others in the farmyard are stunned. But Frost ends with an interesting chill: "And they, since they/Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs...
...thunder you hear on these March nights is the better part of 10 million basketballs being dribbled, slapped, dunked, palmed and bounced in every oversteamed gym and field house and on every chilled and ragged patch of asphalt and on every mud-caked farmyard where a kid can pivot and hook and dream...