Word: wagons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heat relentlessly fills all spaces. This is pioneer and pathfinder country, a desert that developers turned into the mother of all real estate opportunities by diverting water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and the Oroville reservoir, far to the north. This is a place for hardworking parents, with wagon-train hearts, seeking picket-fenced yards, swing sets and quiet streets, for people who can endure temperatures in the 100s and can drive three hours a day to work and back...
...unnerving. One by one, houses exploded in flames. A neighbor yelled that they were surrounded by fire. "We're the hole in the doughnut," he shouted. John shivered. "At this point I was still halfway rational," he remembers. He got the kids into their tennis shoes, backed the station wagon and the Mercedes sedan out of the garage, put the kids in the cars and left the engines running. At 2 p.m. the fire crested the hill above the Harrison house with a terrible roar and danced down the slope. Joy belatedly began trying to collect valuables. She found...
...house with a soundproof basement, he recorded 19 Singable Songs for the Very Young. He borrowed $4,000 to have the records pressed and sold them from his Toyota station wagon. His concerts for children became local legends, with scalpers selling tickets for $300 apiece. "I'd play to 1,200 children in the public library; then that night I'd go to the coffeehouse to play, and there'd be 30 people. I got the message...
Noble attributes that attitude to the complacency of the ruling class. "They don't want to shake the wagon because then their little goody train gets broken up," she says. "What my candidacy does is break up the ballgame...
...latest flare-up of black-Jewish tensions was sparked on the hot, muggy evening of Aug. 19, when a station wagon driven by a Hasidic Jew ran a red light, collided with another car, then jumped the curb and struck two black children. Gavin Cato, 7, was killed, and his cousin Angela Cato, 7, was seriously injured. Crown Heights blacks became enraged that the driver, Yosef Lifsh, a member of the ultra-Orthodox Lubavitcher sect, was not arrested and charged with Cato's death. Their anger was compounded by the false rumor that Lifsh was drunk and by the fact...