Word: levittowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harry: The breaker is Harry, Sophie. I jes' tuned ya in. Could this be the Golden Verce of Sout' Levittown...
...Alfred broke the building of a house down into 26 assembly-line steps, made their family firm, Levitt & Sons, one of the biggest U.S. home builders, slapping together 40,000 low-cost dwellings in three uniformly antiseptic developments on Long Island, in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, introduced the word Levittown to the language; after a long illness; in Manhasset...
...DIACK Levittown...
Each of the seven days that the hookup lasted, Schmidt and Baldwin divided their time equally between sitting up in bed and lying down. They could sleep as much as they wanted. Schmidt, who comes from Levittown. L.I., broke the monotony of reading and card playing by strumming his banjo and singing folk songs. Baldwin, who comes from Ithaca, N.Y., was eagerly looking forward to a steak dinner at experiment's end after meals that were identical every...
...religion issue to stimulate the sympathy of the state's Catholics (39%), as well as the many Jews and Negroes, who are sensitive to bias and bigotry. (Said Congressman Frank Thompson Jr., leader of the Democrats' nationwide voter-registration drive, in a speech at a Levittown luncheon fortnight ago: "If they get a Catholic this time, they'll get a Jew the next time, then a Negro.") Khrushchev helps the Republicans, and so does the memory of Cabot Lodge just across the river at the U.N. (By contrast, Lyndon Johnson's name is conspicuously missing from...