Word: pets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sentence, he was comfortably confined to his $111-a-month, two-bedroom apartment at Fort Benning, Ga., where he passed the months watching television, building model airplanes, boning up on oceanography and ancient history through correspondence courses, growing vegetables and flowers in his backyard, and talking with his pet mynah bird. Calley, 30, has also enjoyed almost daily visits from his girl friend, Anne Moore...
...west of town there is a small shopping center and a nice residential area. The center consists of only a grocery store, a drugstore, and a couple of shop spaces which had changed from bakery to pet shop every few months. But one day something different appeared in one of these spaces, something which would not have been out of the ordinary in parts of Atlanta or Washington or somewhere, but which on the outskirts of Exeter was not just extraordinary or inexplicable but downright impossible. How it came to be, no one knows to this day. At its appearance...
...Robert B. Radnitz (Sounder)-scrupulous about matters of locale and decoration, careful to avoid subverting the circumstances of poverty into sentimentality. The Luther kids-all played by nonprofessional actors-live in a cabin wallpapered with newspaper, which also serves from time to time as a residence for a pet pig and a cow. The surrounding mountain country has a lavish beauty, on which the Luther cabin is a canker...
...ideal way to find out what was going on inside the White House was to approach it from the outside--drive over to State or HEW, for instance, and look up some Young Turk who had just had a pet program sold out by Haldeman or Ehrlichman in order to placate some right-wing governor; the Young Turk would be angry and would gladly tell the whole story. But usually a White House reporter didn't have time to cultivate sources outside the White House was his beat and had to stay there to protect himself in case a story...
...turned out to be much ado about very little. Rather than declare financial war against the West, the Arabs are trying to solve a vexing problem: how to use those petrodollars, pet-rofrancs, petromarks, petropounds and petroyen to expand their own undernourished economies. Because most Arab nations are not sufficiently industrialized to present lucrative investment prospects, the wealthy nations have parked their money in Western banks. That is a situation they will not move quickly to alter, since a rapid withdrawal of the funds could provoke monetary aberrations that would lower the value of their holdings. As one Beirut economist...