Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...warm summer nights, many residents in the San Gabriel and San Fernando valleys of Los Angeles enjoyed sleeping with windows and doors open for fresh air. No more. Since March, a killer has been creeping into those open houses, shooting, stabbing and beating victims chosen apparently at random. The "Night Stalker," as the newspapers have named him, has killed at least 14 people. Homeowners in once sleepy communities are buying door bolts, locking windows and organizing neighborhood watch groups. The killer is believed to be a man with curly hair between the ages of 30 and 35. Police have been...
Reagan, who on earlier summer retreats to his beloved Rancho del Cielo chopped wood and bagged rattlesnakes with photogenic robustness, clearly had been itching to get back in the saddle again. Says one aide: "If the President had his way, he would have ridden a horse from Point Mugu (the Naval air station some 60 miles away, where Air Force One lands) to the ranch." Reagan at least had plenty of time to read the stacks of briefing papers National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane keeps feeding him in preparation for the November summit in Geneva. The papers range from...
...Santa Barbara, some 30 miles down the mountain from the ranch, it was time to take marching orders from Chief of Staff Donald Regan, who has emerged as the undisputed boss in a once loose hierarchy of advisers. White House staffers have been noticeably less leaky this summer as they dine on the expense accounts of the news-hungry White House press corps. Only McFarlane has managed to retain some autonomy, by virtue of his foreign policy expertise and willingness to speak...
...grumbled about the rapid approach of the coming school year, which would soon scatter us across the country. No one realized it was the last time we'd all be together that summer. And no one suspected that we'd be reunited within a month--for a funeral...
...year at college saw a startling metamorphosis. Ike spoke enthusiastically about his politics courses, and a disciplined exercise regimen had added a good 30 pounds of muscle to his slight frame. He looked healthy. He seemed happy. He spent much of last summer doing what he enjoyed most satling on his family's boat...