Word: borough
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...president of the New York City borough of Queens, Donald Manes was the political boss of a community whose population (2 million) puts it on a par with the fourth-largest city in the U.S. A savvy leader whose burly gruffness sometimes masked his warmth and intelligence, he had been known as "the King of Queens" for the way he dispensed patronage and used his clout with city hall in Manhattan...
...borough president's suicide was a grotesque climax to a case that had been unfolding since the early morning of Jan. 10, when police in Queens noticed a weaving car, investigated and found Manes at the wheel. He was dazed and bleeding profusely from a slashed wrist and ankle. Rushed to the hospital, Manes survived heavy blood loss and a subsequent heart attack. At first he claimed that he had been attacked, but he later admitted that his wounds were self-inflicted...
...elements usually associated with the form. A melancholy Edgar ticks off his experiences and observations; his mother, brother and aunt make brief personal appearances, while the father remains silent and remote. Even the Bronx is incompletely perceived. Granted that it is not New York City's most glamorous borough, it is home to the Yankees and one of the world's great zoos. Neither attraction appears in the book, understandable if Doctorow had written a memoir, but a lost opportunity in a novel about growing up with "King Kong" Keller and other great apes in the neighborhood. --By R.Z. Sheppard
...most of their marriage they appeared to coexist on one platform or another, like figurines on a wedding cake. Sheed estimates that his father alone delivered some 14,000 outdoor sermons, manning pulpits in Hyde Park and on street corners from his native Sydney to his favorite adopted borough, Manhattan...
...Based on the circumstances surrounding these charges, it is very likely that it will be downgraded to district court here in Princeton Borough,” he said. If the court remands the case down to Princeton Borough, it would most likely result in more lax consequences for the offense, McManimon said...