Word: malle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That, in fact, was the biggest news in the village the day after it plunged out of the center of the world. Cars and buses and trucks were driving up and down the village's narrow main thoroughfare. Gone was the animated pedestrian mall achieved by blockades, state troopers and an exasperating, temporary one-way traffic system. Gone were the strollers, gawkers, jugglers, hawkers, hustlers, evangels, barterers. Gone were the ski-pantsed snow bunnies and gone, too, were the gaggles of boozy young celebrators lurching about singing God Bless Our Hockey Team to the tune of God Bless America...
...Farrell (she prefers not to be called "sister") has sat on the five-member city council since 1977. Sophisticated? Well, she enjoys an occasional Manhattan, plays golf, and as a Jimmy Carter Democrat, comprehends the intricacies of Iowa politics. Says Farrell, whose program includes better highways, a downtown shopping mall and an industrial park for Dubuque: "You can do as much or as little as you want in my position. I plan to keep moving...