Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Machete Drill. Some time Wednesday morning the terrorists left their headquarters, located in a quiet Washington neighborhood six miles north of the White House. They were armed with rifles, shotguns and machetes. A neighbor later told police that he had seen the group drilling with machetes in the yard...
From then on toward midnight, he tries, in his own words, "to prioritize." Prioritizing takes him into the Oval Office to talk each day with the President and to drop in on his next-door neighbor Vice President Mondale. Ham and Fritz have meshed in a manner rare in White House history; each savors the guts of things rather than the trappings...
...long as she remains married, however, Marabel continues to interpret submissiveness in her own irrepressible way. One of her pieces of advice to the Total Woman is to wave goodbye to the husband when he leaves for work. A neighbor saw Marabel doing that herself one morning not long ago. Only she didn't just wave. She suddenly started doing the cancan...
...Water is so scarce in many South Dakota towns, like Toronto (pop. 200), that assembly of a rescue "rain train" of 100 tank cars carrying 20,000 gallons each from the Missouri River is under consideration. Toronto's Lutheran pastor, the Rev. Daniel Chell, borrows water from a neighbor's cistern to flush toilets, boils rice in milk instead of water, and finds he is hard put to practice the "steadfastness and patience" he preaches. Some families in Minnesota, where 1,718 private wells dried up this winter, are melting snow for drinking water. Parts of Nebraska...
...Watch the television local news after any big bank robbery. On-camera appears the bank spokesman, mindful of the bank's image as your friendly neighbor. He describes how polite the robbers were as they trussed up the teller: no threats, much courtesy. From the spokesman comes no outrage or even indignation; perhaps the next question provides the answer to that: the bank is fully covered by insurance. The robbers are made glamorous by their victims. Fagin, were he alive, would be adding public relations courses to his school for crime...