Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...house we dreamed of, not even the house we grew up in, the house we remember. Sometimes it stands a little too near the freeway, in a raw mat of sodded lawn-a poignant dry-green whiffle of grass with a single sapling in it that gives no more shade than a swizzle stick. The house has the frank, bleak starkness of the cut-rate. Its interiors are minimalist, and grimly candid about it. No woodwork, no extras, no little frills of gentility any more. No front hall. One bathroom, with the cheapest fixtures, no bathtub...
...national custom for Americans of every philosophical shade to berate the federal courts, from the highest down, over decisions that cut against the popular grain. Conservative calls for the impeachment of activist Chief Justice Earl Warren were commonplace. But to allow anger at the courts to grow into political action that would disable them could prove extremely perilous. What needs to be remembered is why the federal courts so frequently go against the grain of popular sentiment. More often than not they are doing what they, alone among U.S. institutions, were designed to do: safeguarding the fundamental rights...
...idea of a vacation is to rest quietly in the shade of a blond...
...brain drain. Donald Weber left behind a potentially higher salary and a chance to help direct a new and growing American Studies program. But at Mount Holyoke, he and his family have moved into "an old, beautiful house across the street from the campus." It has eight rooms, big shade trees-and rents for $275 a month...
...burned out, homeless people camp in boarded-up tenements, small boys peddle angel dust on the streets. In the midst of this chaos, behind a cast-iron fence, three calm acres of grass and flowers surround a stately Tudor building. Students in blue and beige uniforms read in the shade of oak trees. "The oasis," as the facility is called by the community, is one of more than 100 federally funded Job Corps centers in the U.S. Inside its gates 263 young people, ages 16 to 22, mostly high school dropouts from the surrounding ghetto, study English and bookkeeping, cooking...