Word: school-yard
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...happened on the night of Officer Van Houten's mugging. But police now say that witnesses have offered an explanation for the attempted robbery. According to the police, the crime was committed on impulse. Earlier that evening, the witnesses say, Edmund and Jonah had played basketball in a local school-yard, betting the price of a movie on the outcome. As it turned out, neither brother had any money. Police officials say that witnesses overheard the brothers planning a spur-of-the- moment robbery. An autopsy later showed traces of marijuana in Edmund's blood, leading some to wonder whether...
...opposition they met hardly justified the effort. Expecting the uninvited visitors the three hundred residents of the town assembled in the school-yard to wait for the invasion. When the swarm of deputies took over the town, they did so to the strains of the Star Spangled Banner sung by Short Creek residents as they hoisted a fluttering American flag into the dawn breeze. This exemplary patriotism did not deter the Law, and the town's thirty-six men were taken to jail; the eighty-six now-lonely women went to foster homes in Phoenix...
With this cruel jibe the two combatants?as if hearing the bell that ended their recess?drew apart, leaving the school-yard to quiet and to Colonel House...