Word: porches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week, sitting on a neighbor's screened porch with a view of Fort Sumter behind them, the two women recalled the beginning of their association and friendship. Advising unpublished writers is not Humphreys' glass of ice tea. "I found that I'm usually a hurt more than a help," she says. Yet she phoned Bolton and was immediately hooked by the voice she heard. "I loved its sound, bright and quick ... a strong story-telling voice," she says. Bolton had had only one other encounter with the literary world, when she contacted a vanity publisher whose...
...links were warm but sensitive. Doris Kearns, a Kennedy biographer, remembers long phone conversations with Onassis. "She would talk about what it was like when she first met Joe and Rose Kennedy, how she would listen to classical music on the porch at Hyannis Port with Joe because they both liked classical music, how she didn't play touch football with everyone else, how difficult it was with Rose in the beginning. The whole Kennedy family drew the married kids away from their wives, but she was determined to create a nuclear family for Jack." Kearns relates how Onassis felt...
Once his ballot was in the box on a schoolhouse porch in Inanda, a township soaked with the blood of battles between the A.N.C. and Inkatha, Mandela very quickly stepped into his new role as leader of the nation -- all the nation. "Our message," he said, "is that the basic needs of the masses of the people must be addressed. These are our priorities." At the same time, he had words of reassurance for whites. "We are concerned about giving confidence and security to those who are worried that by these changes they are going to be in a disadvantaged...
...Miami Herald reported that Lennar agreed to pay for porch repairs on some of the houses but declined to make other repairs, arguing that the homes were fundamentally sound...
...theatre as a tenth generation cassette gets to live performance. Do you remember the scene when Lila approaches the Bates mansion? The picture cuts from her to the house; then to Lila, a little closer; then to the house, a little bigger; then to Lila, almost at the porch...but on your cruddy TV the effect of that ominous shot of the house looming over her was somewhat diminished by the tiny scale and the foggy reproduction of the original print, not to mention the two empty beer cans blocking your view and the sound of your roomate's stereo...