Word: garden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...husband. One cab was hijacked and burned out by black youths at the beginning of the Soweto disturbances in June. Last week, fearful of breaking the boycott, she kept her remaining taxis at home. But at midweek a youth, fleeing a Zulu gang, ran through the garden of her home. The enraged Zulus, thinking she had given him refuge, kicked down her front door, smashed her furniture and windows, and then hacked and smashed her two cabs parked outside. "This is the end," she said. "Between the Zulu mobs, the students, the tsotsis [hoodlums] and the police, who never come...
Under a "drought bill" that grants regional authorities the power to ban nonessential uses of water, Welshmen have been forbidden to water lawns, wash cars or fill swimming pools. Anyone caught hosing his garden is subject to an $800 fine. Beginning last week, more than a million Welsh residents are getting water only between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m., and this week some factories will go on compulsory half-rations. "There are no baths, and clothes don't get washed so often," says Cardiff Housewife Elizabeth Davies. "I used to use the washing machine every...
...take the blame. For if there is one serpent most easily discernible in the Garden of Eden togetherness that Americans hope for from tennis, it is the American husband. Until the advent of Women's Liberation, when men began to be accused of a certain piggish dominance again, a sociologist's easy generalization about the American middle-class husband was that he had lost his domestic clout. It is hardly more than a decade, in fact, since wits began describing the commuting husband as a "yard man with sex privileges." Now it appears that whatever happened...
...Douglas Kiker fought his way to Betty Ford in a dead heat with CBS's Sylvia Chase, but gracefully let her go first. Even NBC'S Pettit, a raging bull at Madison Square Garden last month, was a model of courtliness, standing by patiently while Mudd of CBS beat him to an interview with former Missouri Representative Thomas Curtis. "The kind of abrasiveness that was customary and sometimes necessary in 1968 is out of place now," explained Dan Rather. "We're a little cooler headed...
...terms of religion, there is a greater preponderance of Protestants at the Kansas City convention than there was at Madison Square Garden. Says Statistician Warren Mitofsky, who prepared the CBS survey: "Even the Irish Republican delegates are 61% Protestant and only 35% Catholic; the Democrats' Irish are 66% Catholic and 28% Protestant...