Word: backyard
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...spurting price of oil has prompted both scientists and backyard tinkerers to try tapping alternative forms of energy, ranging from sun power to geyser power. Not waiting for these exotic energies to arrive, Brazil is making an all-out effort to exploit a quite ordinary, but until now underused, power source: alcohol distilled mainly from its bumper crops of sugar cane. Already, 230,000 of the automobiles moving along Brazil's roads are powered by pure alcohol instead of gasoline. By 1982, Brazil hopes to have produced at least 1 million alcomobiles. Except for a few minor engine alterations...
...against the Crimson from the start. With first-string quarterback Brian Buckley sidelined by knee problems and running backs Jim Callinan and Paul Scheper out with injuries, Harvard did not figure to chalk up an easy win against preseason Ivy favorite Dartmouth, especially in the Big Green's belligerent backyard...
...before Kirbo or any of the others had a chance to sit down with him, Carter was off and campaigning early Monday. At a backyard gathering in suburban Chicago, he lost no time in lambasting Reagan, saying that being "jingoistic in spirit" was "an excellent way to lead this country to war." It was that evening that he hit full voice and charged that Reagan would splinter the nation...
...monopoly over African news by four large Western news organizations--as "unhealthy." Because local or national newspapers do not play a significant role in African society, "someone in Uganda has to turn on a BBC broadcast 6000 miles away to find out what's going on in his own backyard," Lamb says. After Idi Amin was overthrown, Lamb and another reporter traveled down a dirt road in rural Uganda and discovered that the appearance of two unescorted whites was the only sign. Ugnadans had of Amin's departure. Because African newspapers do not cover their own continent, they are forced...
...scene from a 1950s sci-fi film, but a bizarre aftermath of Hurricane Allen, which early in August inundated coastal areas that were bone-dry because of drought, causing salt-marsh mosquito eggs to hatch. Suddenly the mosquito, slightly larger at ¼ in. long than the common backyard variety, became a major plague. So far, the insects have killed at least 49 cows and horses but no humans, though several Texans have been chased indoors or into cars by the voracious bugs...