Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Later, the couple were joined by a girl who was slighter and taller than the first. "Adams" generally left the apartment at about 10:30 in the morning, driving away in a station wagon and returning in the early afternoon. But the two women were rarely seen around the neighborhood...
...Boston's white, working-class Charlestown neighborhood, hundreds of mothers, many with small children, chanted: "Over there, over there, the kids aren't going over there." Just outside Louisville, 1,500 people attended a Ku Klux Klan cross burning one night, and 6,000 shouted "Boycott! Boycott! Boycott!" at a protest rally...
...seem to have much political awareness about them. In fact the most visible protests have been a series of Mother's Marches, in which women and girls often with babies in strollers, walk two by two chanting repeatedly the Lord's Prayer and Hail Marys. They march to neighborhood churches to pray and sing hymns, sometimes kneeling down to statues of patron saints to pray for intercession to stop forced busing. The unvoiced desire to keep blacks out of their schools and community is obviously there, producing prayers that are suspect in their motivation and intent...
...boys sit idle, watching TV and helping their parents with various chores. Police had sealed off the nearby schools; thus Danny for a time could not play tennis there as he did this summer. Debbie plays with neighborhood youngsters but appears confused. "Busing-yech. It stinks," she says...
...FORRESTER (NBC, Tuesday, 10 p.m. E.D.T.) is a Police Story spinoff, starring shrewd but compassionate Lloyd Bridges as a detective walking a beat in uniform, trying to clean up his old neighborhood. He appears to like everyone he meets, never steals apples from the fruit stand and is respected by the locals. Even when he is responsible for the death of both sons of a woman he has known for decades, her admiration for him remains unsullied. He is, in short, the peace officer who passeth all understanding. So does his show...