Word: picket
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Married for the first time, in May at age 39, Chrystyna Garrigan, a skin-care consultant from Montclair, N.J., considers herself a pretty modern woman. Smart, independent and cheerfully unconventional, she did not spend her childhood planning the perfect wedding or dreaming of white picket fences...
...thought with the strike, you might cross a picket line and get some ice time...
During the five-day strike last week, many teaching assistants at both schools did not teach their regular classes and instead stood in picket lines or participated in rallies...
Reynolds said that a majority of Yale’s teaching assistants “respected the picket lines”—meaning they either taught off campus or went on strike...
...height, the pitch of the roof, the size and configuration of porches. Yet the rules change sensibly from neighborhood to neighborhood. On north-south avenues, for instance, large front yards are required, thus leaving ocean views unobstructed even from points well inland; the same homeowners, however, must erect streetside picket fences to provide pedestrians a reassuring sense of scale and enclosure. Along Seaside's widest boulevard, the guidelines will produce grand houses with verandas...