Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many young dealers also use crack profits to help their struggling families -- and the extra cash that appears on the kitchen table can persuade parents to look the other way while their children are heading into trouble. Denise Robinson, founder of the Detroit community-action group Saving Our Kids, even recalls a mother who dissuaded her son from returning to high school. "He had been a good student. He had good grades," says Robinson. "((But)) he was making $600 a week dealing crack. So his mother wanted him to keep dealing." The incentive is powerful: "The kids...
...clapboard tourist town around an old cavalry post nearby, and the population of Lajitas is about 100. "Back then, all my friends lived across the river," says Ivey, a bachelor, who lives behind the shop. "Now I've got ^ a few over here as well." He has turned his kitchen into an office because, as he puts it, "I don't get to eat here real often...
...know some guys in the Sahara who would kill for one of these. And our pool table is fairly "unparalleled" as well. The way the right corner pocket just sucks the balls right in, like a magnet. And the cockroaches that have been known to stampede across the kitchen floor. I guess they're pretty "unparalleled" too. Bio labs across the country would pay a fortune for a living specimen (a nearly impossible request: they were very fast. If not, they would be reduced quickly to a pool...
...eminent political poets, she has acquired a dashing husband with an eye patch, Richard Rahn, an economist with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and a ten-month-old son with eyes as blue as the evening sky. And something else -- a facsimile machine that rests on her kitchen cabinet just above little Will's playpen. He is fascinated with its rustling paper, the paper of poetry. Noonan pecks the words out in the next room and feeds them into this electronic umbilical, and they emerge in Bush's speeches in Seattle and San Diego, fragments of silver in a year...
...most part, the spectators bore the cold and the crowding cheerfully. Many regulars had anticipated the need to see past the fellow patriots who surrounded the Green six deep. The rear of the crowd was a solid row of stepladders, chairs and kitchen stools...