Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fourth day of the week, Louise was complaining that the phone which had been installed by one of the two large windows facing the Yard hadn't been connected yet. Adrian couldn't figure out what Louise was bitching about, after all, there were plenty of phones in the Square. But as Adrian was soon to find out, the phone would come to play a crucial role in Louis's life and the lives of all the men she would attract...
...week, Bell Telephone had managed to hook up the phone and Adrian soon began to understand its importance in Louise's life. It never stopped ringing. All Louise had to do was talk to some guy in the library, smile to someone on her way through the Yard and as soon as she stepped back into the room, the phone would be ringing...
...When Mrs. Jackson did appear, her talk was a litany of paranoia. She cussed out other residents for complaining about her trash on the roadside. The doorknobs in her house were wrapped in aluminum foil, she explained, because it "kept out the demons." When a shrub died in her yard, she referred to it as "the devil's bush." Said a neighbor: "She was terrified of everything...
...freshmen are moving to the Yard...
...week closer to exams but the sunbathing students in Harvard Yard yesterday didn't seem too disconsolate about...