Word: pails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Viet Nam veteran in New York City spends all his days on his back porch, throwing lighted matches into a pail. Another has not been out of his house in ten years: a literal hostage to the war that goes banging on in his own mind. Robert Moore, 32, spent eight years hiding at home, before he joined a VA-supported outreach center in Queens. There, he and two other veterans work as a team to locate similar cases of radical withdrawal ?men hunkered down in their little psychic tunnels, like Viet Cong staying safe from all that American...
...that FHA subsidizes inefficiency by providing marginal farmers with enough funds so that they will not have to quit the land. Contends John Lawlor, executive vice president of the Citizen State Bank in Belle Plaine: "They've kept people in business who should have been carrying a lunch pail." But Vernon Nelson, FHA supervisor for Benton County, is proud that his loans have contributed to the success of farmers who just need a little help in competing with the conglomerate operators. The argument over FHA boils down to one of practicality vs. sentiment, depending on how important maintaining family...
Wilkie, 39, is an affable Mississippian with an accent that sounds like marbles rolling around in a pail of Delta mud. A drooping mustache and gray-streaked hair that tumbles over his collar contribute to an aspect somewhere between a Confederate cavalry officer and Catfish Hunter. He began his career with the Clarksdale (Miss.) Press Register (circ. 7,325), got his first taste of national politics-and a highly flattering portrayal in The Boys on the Bus, Timothy Grouse's book about the 1972 campaign-at the Wilmington (Del.) News Journal (circ. 133,000) and hired...