Word: civics
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...realm they left their children behind and became children themselves." This is where the action is, Sukie muses, "not here in town, where bitter water lapped the pilings and placed a shudder of reflected light upon the haggard faces of the citizens of Eastwick as they plodded through their civic and Christian duties...
...pretty neat things have happened in the last few days down in Providence enough to merit a broad reconsideration of the city, in fact. Because if you like good civic scandals. Providence's current brouhaha is about the best in recent memory...
...mother and a nimble au pair, also forced Hynde to "tame down. Suddenly, you can't imagine sitting down and smoking a pack of fags or drinking whisky. Being a mother's a real awakening." Hynde is still far from being the sort of model of civic rectitude that the folks back in her home town of Akron might approve. After a low-key, Midwestern small-town childhood, she took off for England, wild and a little desperate, at the age of 22, and plunged into the sort of bohemian life that, with suitable adjustments for advanced...
Council power hangs in a tenuous balance between the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA)-affiliated councilors, who favored the smoking ban, and the conservative Independents, who opposed the measure on the grounds that it would unfairly restrict private enterprise...
...Huff said that she had earlier informed Field in a letter that she was going to propose the disavowal of his award. Field "shamelessly pulled the plug on a major civic institution," she said. "This is not what the Harvard Club stands...