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...hostilities surfaced was the enclosure of the Common, a step urged for aesthetic considerations by residents near Harvard. but drovers wanted the land kept open for the grazing of their stock, and for others, the road through the common was a direct link between Cambridge St. and the Concord Turn-pike. The enclosers carried the day, 169-119, but not before language uncommonly foul had been uttered in the meetinghouse. Those words were considered harsh enough to necessitate the construction of a new city hall...
Shannon's Fifth District encompasses the more liberal Lexington and Concord but curves out westward to include more conservative working-class cities like Lowell and Lawrence. Nearly three-quarters of the district is Roman Catholic, and most parishes either read or posted the letter at Sunday services...
...were technologically competitive. Today it has just 1.7% of the U.S. market. AMC's only new models this year are the Renault 181, which it is importing from France, and a four-wheel-drive subcompact. By 1982 AMC may be phasing out the existing subcompact Spirit and compact Concord, leaving it with a Renault-designed small car to be built at its only surviving passenger car plant, in Kenosha, Wis. American Motors will probably become more and more of a French company as the '80s progress...
...since the Battle of Concord has a shot been heard round the world like this. Televiewers in 50 other countries are as agog as U.S. audiences over who ambushed mean J.R. Ewing, played by Actor Larry Hagman, in the season finale of the high-rating Dallas series. A British bookmaker accepted wagers on the identity of J.R.'s assailant; betting $234,000, punters made Wife Sue Ellen's cowboy lover, Dusty, a 6 to 4 favorite even though he is presumed dead in a plane crash. With six other likely suspects, Dallas' producers are filming different versions...
Many supporters of the crown found it prudent to flee to Boston where they could remain safe behind royal lines, and Cambridge became the boundary with the British Empire. That boundary was reinforced in the spring 1775, when, after starting the Revolutionary War in Lexington and Concord, British soldiers retreated into Boston. Behind them, Minutemen closed off the peninsula, camping 16,000 strong on Cambridge Common for months. When the soldiers needed barracks, Harvard agreeably moved to Concord for about a year. When the soldiers needed baths, they took them in the Charles River, often Sutton notes, "with disregard...