Word: blight
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...efforts paid off in his first encounter: discouraging the sale of land to builders of a planned drive-in theater. Polizzi sent the Democratic ward committeeman into the streets with a sound truck announcing an emergency meeting in the Big Club Hall. After a session exploring the blight that the drive-in would inflict on the area, a small army of Italian dowagers volunteered to lie down in front of the bulldozers. The sellers backed down, and the Hill's alderman quickly slipped a regulation through the zoning board forbidding a building permit for any drive-in within...
When Albert L. Nickerson graduated from Harvard in the pits of the Depression in 1933, his studies in French literature didn't do him much good. Like so many others bitten by an economic blight the Ivy League wasn't immune to, Nickerson needed a job. He contacted the newly-established National Recovery Administration and was given work as a second-shift man in a Mobil gas station in Brookline, pumping gas and greasing chassis for $18.75 a week...
...sort. At most it will declare city boundaries an unnecessary obstruction to a desegregated school system. Such a judgment would remedy many of the inequalities in the American educational system. Yet it would be nothing more than a short step on the long road to eradicating the blight that plagues our cities...
...last fall Kimberly Roth would spend in Troy. Autumn makes no mark on this new Detroit suburb. Trees have not had time enough to grow as have the elms of the inner city. And the air, sulphurous and choked as always, has brought blight to the few infant trees, imported and sculptured in thick rows between the yards of the condominiums to impart exclusiveness. They look siliconed, as do the laws which are sod carpets purchased ready-made and transplanted by unrolling...
America's treatment of one of her finest sons will forever remain a blight on her conscience...