Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never been serious enough to try to abolish it. They knew that their blue-collar ethnic constituencies wouldn't stand for it. But Walsh was different. Walsh was the businessman's candidate, and he has remained their advocate, according to Cyr. Two kinds of independents emerged; the old style neighborhood' politicians and the young issue-oriented ones...
...yard and gaze across at his father's ) house. If a face appeared in the window, the boy would turn and run away. When big Noah took his own family on a trip, Jackson's biographer Barbara Reynolds has reported, Jesse grieved to go with him. In the neighborhood the young Jackson was taunted by other boys about having no father. At the Baptist church, moralistic parishioners made his mother feel like an outcast...
Seven young men, all in their late teens or early 20s, slipped into a deserted dead-end street in eastern Tehran. From a neighborhood mosque, a loudspeaker rumbled with denunciations of America. While two of the youths acted as lookouts, a third placed a boxlike device at the base of a concrete wall, then rejoined his comrades. Subversives? Yes indeed, but not the kind to start an armed rebellion against the government. These, after all, were children of the Khomeini revolution, indoctrinated in the dream of conquering the world for Islam. But on this occasion they had another aim: they...
Inspired by Oliver North's testimony on Capitol Hill last month, more teenagers than usual are showing up at Marine recruitment offices. The less venturesome can rush down to their neighborhood video arcade -- to play Contra. For 25 cents players can pretend to shoot their way through treacherous jungles without risking their lives or getting caught up in a covert operation. Since Contra's introduction in the spring, it has climbed to No. 6 on the chart compiled by Replay, a prominent video magazine, of the most popular arcade games...
Shortly before sunrise, some 30 heavily armed security troops rode by truck into the posh residential neighborhood of Altos de Golf. Quickly, the Israeli- trained riot police fanned out in front of a white-walled house. Overhead, two Huey helicopter gunships hovered, soldiers and their machine guns peeking through the open doors. At 5:30 a.m., the first shots rang...