Word: lane
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...first time since 1893. In Illinois they control both houses for the first time in 36 years, in Ohio for the first time in 15 years. At times it seemed as though any Democrat could beat any Republican. In Illinois an obscure civil servant named Robert T. Lane defeated Jack Walker, a former speaker of the house. W. Robert Blair, the present speaker of the Illinois house and a man who had been mentioned as a gubernatorial candidate in 1976, went down to defeat in a traditionally Republican district...
...posters borne aloft by the crowd. One banner read, P.L.O. is MURDER INTERNATIONAL; another proclaimed, DEATH TAKES A SEAT AT THE U.N. Eban bitterly denounced the current pro-Arab mood of the U.N., which, he said, "would refuse to support the Ten Commandments because they came out of Israel."* Lane Kirkland, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, added that "there is a stink of Munich in the air, and it reeks of Arab...
...least for one or two viewings), than Paper Moon. It purports to show us the problems of what it tries to pass off as a typical high school class of the 1950s. The kids spend most of their time necking at the drive-in or necking in lovers' lane. Or rather squabbling about necking, because the girls all appear to be in a state of permanent hysteria over their reputations...
Surrounded on three sides by water and on the fourth by an eight-lane expressway, South Boston has long had a sense of isolation and special identity. There is nothing Yankee about the place; the fact that Boston was once a center for the abolitionist movement is irrelevant to Southie's history. For generations it has been the home of laboring Irish immigrant families and their descendants, an ethnic bedrock that has had layers of Poles, Lithuanians and Germans added to it. Southie's sons have worked Boston's docks, driven its trolleys and trucks, built...
Much of the violence took place along Dorchester Street, a four-lane thoroughfare that is the main artery of South Boston, the center of opposition to forced busing. With feelings running high over the busing order, "Southie" swarmed with police, including 300 members of the elite Tactical Patrol Force brought in to disperse crowds and protect the buses bringing black students to the area's previously all-white schools...