Word: backyard
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...opposition in its 124 years. Because Le Figaro is the chief spokesman for the Roman Catholic middle class (it considers itself "further left than right-wing papers, and further right than left-wing papers"), its major, opposition now is Communism-not only in Moscow but in its own backyard...
...their elders, the young investigators were not content to make their reports and forget about them. Billy Buttelmann had found that there was no playground for blocks around for the younger kids in his neighborhood. Billy and a friend decided to build a clubhouse in a big, unused backyard. Soon the kids were playing there instead of in the streets...
When the student arrives at 5 Phillips Place, he finds himself virtually in the backyard of Radcliffe, standing in front of a white-pillared yellow Victorian house. He is cordially welcomed and soon discovers, usually to his surprise, that there are nearly 200 other students chatting and singing in the rooms of this attractive private home...
...John Citizen have a toilet? If so was it inside the house or outside-or did he just have a privy in the backyard? Did he have a television set? A refrigerator? A furnace? If so, did he use coal, coke, wood, utility gas, bottled gas, liquid fuel, or electricity? Did he have a kitchen sink? Where did he live-in a house, apartment, flat, trailer, tent, boat, railroad car, rooming house, hotel, jail, or tourist camp? If he rented a furnished house, what would it rent for unfurnished...
...wife started toward the stairway, but had to retreat from the gasoline-fired flame already roaring through the hall. They turned quickly to follow their older daughter through a living-room window. Moments later, as Doughty tried to raise a ladder to the second story from the backyard, the walls of the house bulged outward and collapsed into a flaming crackling heap. The storm swirled the sparks and oily black smoke into the freezing night, and counted its death toll: Janet and Tommy Doughty killed in their beds, Pilot Jones, his crew of two and all of the ten passengers...