Word: orchard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pear Orchard, USA. American folk humor and political satire. Old Cambridge Baptist Church. 7:30, March...
From time to time, Rehnquist got lucrative offers from other big-city law firms but he preferred Phoenix as a place to raise his three children, Jim, now 16, Janet, 14, and Nancy. 12. He liked to take his family on camping trips, bought an apple orchard in the Rockies as a place for retirement. He also enjoyed playing the recorder at family song fests...
Corona returned to his contracting job, regaining the confidence of the area orchard owners (he had the run of the Sullivan ranch, where most of the bod ies have been found). He kept to him self and taught his family to do the same. "He never bothered anyone around here," says a neighbor...
...soon they had dug up the whole body. Then last week a farm hand working on a nearby ranch spotted a suspicious-looking mound. The sheriff's men went back to work and quickly came up with a second corpse. That touched off a thorough search of the orchard country around Yuba City, Calif., a normally placid town (pop. 13,986) on the Feather River 45 miles north of Sacramento. Using shovels and finally a tractor with a scoop, the deputies turned up body after body; by late last week, continuing a crescendo of horror, they had found...
...highway bridge on Etna's panoramic Sea and Snow drive being twisted and melted by encroaching lava. The eruptions have also created a carnival-like atmosphere; a few of the tourists have gone so far as to cheer whenever the lava pours into a fresh field or orchard. That behavior has threatened another kind of blowup: fighting between insensitive sightseers and angered Sicilian farmers...