Word: porch
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Buffet lunch, including fried chicken, beans and apple cobbler, the Front Porch restaurant, Yellville (home of Whitewater land records...
...these guns from pouring into our communities," said Attorney General - Doyle, addressing the crowd. Banners listed the names of youths killed in the past four years -- kids like Kendra Miles, 15, shot in the chest in October, allegedly by a 14-year-old boy while standing on her front porch; Monte Fuller, 12, shot in the mouth this fall in a drive-by; Charles Brenson, 15, shot dead last month after refusing to surrender his ski jacket and shoes. Three days after Brenson's death, on Thanksgiving, Torey Dyson, 18, was shot in the chest. He collapsed on the sidewalk...
...other side, or simply psyching me out? Five minutes later, she was sitting exactly where she had been before. And where she had been before, and was now, was not the dark, frightening room of seances and sinister doings I had imagined, but an airy, pale blue front porch. The sun was streaming in, and icons of the Virgin Mary and praying hands decorated the otherwise sparse walls...
...Rockies' new ethos manages to combine the yearning for a simpler, rooted, front-porch way of life with the urban-bred, high-tech worldliness of computers and modems. When the San Francisco earthquake struck almost four years ago, computer writer T.C. Doyle, 30, and his wife Naomi, 29, picked up and moved to scenic -- and relatively sophisticated and pricey -- Park City, Utah. "We wanted a smaller town that was on the upswing," says Doyle. From there he now sends stories almost daily to his employer, Computer Reseller News, in Manhasset, New York. Bruce Tipple, 48, moved to the same mining...
...never-fail first-line test worked just right for Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove (1985), one of the half-dozen or so best novels ever to come out of the American West. Here's how McMurtry started off: "When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake . . ." You can't stop reading there. ". . . not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over...