Word: mowers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion in 1989, $36 billion in 1990 and finally zero in 1991. If Congress fails to meet these targets, the cuts that automatically kick in will be evenly divided between defense and domestic programs, and they are likely to be applied with about as much discrimination as a lawn mower shows high grass...
...sign out front that says, THANKS FOR COMING, but there are no people. Windows are unbroken, and a few have curtains, neatly sashed back. There are some cars, a bird feeder made from a plastic Seven-Up bottle, a hammock tied from an elm to a sycamore, a riding mower with a Six Flags sticker on it, and FOR SALE signs all over the place. Pinned up on one front door is a printed passage from Psalms: "This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." But there are no people...
Larson would go home and write that "you could have mowed the grass with a push mower. Part of the left-field fence had blown down. The dugouts looked more like bus-stop shelters. The bleachers were rickety. And the wind had bent the light poles at rakish angles...
...This party needs more girls," said Rui Defigueiredo, of Wigglesworth Hall and Texas. "This party needs less people, it's too dark and crowded to meet anyone," Stacie Lipp of Mower and California responded...
...clipped to death by his own power mower. A neighbor has his mind blown by a malfunctioning Walkman, and a waitress is carved up by a knife. Oh well, such is suburbia according to Novelist Stephen King's Overdrive, now filming in North Carolina. The story of everyday machines turning against their human masters marks the directorial debut of King, 37, who quickly learned that filmmaking "is not like writing. You always have a lot of people in your face here." Still, the protean horrorsmith would not have missed a chance to go behind the camera. After all, eleven...