Word: civic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neighbors in Brooklyn said that the honest, hard-working, little suit salesman, who had sen Willie Sutton by chance and turned him in as any civic minded citizen would do, seemed to be living beyond his known means. These sidelights were just filler to pad out the hot story of the day. But they were interesting filler...
McCloskey has specialized in constitutional law and political theory and is currently studying the status of constitutional doctrine in the field of civic liberties during the past three decades...
...Portland, an Oregon Journal photographer excitedly ran eight blocks to the Civic Auditorium where Margaret Truman was about to start a concert. Panting, he momentously told her the news. She sweetly replied that she had known it. In Chicago, the Sun-Times spread across its centerfold two pages of pictures of Truman from cradle to Jefferson-Jackson banquet. Many a paper, -e.g., the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, had taken a chance and gone to press with stories based on the advance text (PRESIDENT DOES NOT INDICATE PLANS), and shifted to a new banner and the big news before their press...
...civic election, the Cambridge voters can get rid of Atkinson by voting in a Council unfavorable to his policies, or, for that matter they can throw out Plan E itself if they so wish. Limiting Atkinson's tenure in office would not give either the voters or the Council more power over the City Manager, but would mean that every ten years (the figure your editorial set) the City Manager would have to be replaced regardless of whether the Council approved of his policies or could not find a better man for the job. The result is that...
...variations depend a little on the "feel" of the individual communities. One is a summer colony where most civic decisions depend on "what the summer people think"; another is a fishing village where life is only as good as the last herring catch; still another, a thriving granite center 25 years ago, is now an apathetic ghost town. Mrs. Henrichsen's chief satisfaction is that a clannish, clammish people have opened their hearts to her. She prizes most one oblique Maine compliment: "I don't care for you," said a woman on whom she was calling-and Preacher...