Word: porch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accidentally napalmed a Vietnamese orphanage, still reconstructs in his head the writhing bodies of screaming children. In Flint, Mich., an Army vet was so devastated by his Viet Nam experience that he spent his days doing little more than cleaning his rifle and rocking on his front porch...
...police and the FBI needed 400 men equipped with helicopters, tear gas, bullets, and fragmentation grenades to overcome six amateur gunmen trapped in a single house. Nor is there any excuse for the police to have totally ignore the safety of the community. A crippled woman sitting on the porch next door to the SLA's hideout had to be helped to cover when the shooting began without previous warning...
Five minutes later, he repeated the order. When again there was no response, an officer crept behind a wall near the house and threw a sizzling tear-gas canister through the tattered window curtains. A mangy, dun-colored dog scurried off the porch...
...Their quarry is doing some chores. Without a word, they confront him, pull their weapons, shoot him twice in the heart, and go away. Around his still body his pet dog capers and moans. Over in the corral a horse paces desperately. And the screen door on the porch bangs open and closed in the wind. Cliches are not the exclusive province of dialogue...
...island, presenting a glittering metallic wall. A few blocks away, a teenage girl with red-painted finger nails picks up a laundry basket in the greasy kitchen of her small home. She turns down the light of the hamburgers crackling on the stove and goes out onto the back porch, where blouses, pants, and underwear hang on a clothesline. She begins taking down the garments, putting the clothespins in her pocket, when she sees out of the corner of her eye an airplane rising in the sky. A blouse flaps in her hand as she stares at the plane...