Word: salem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conference attracted a few mayors who have made political history, including Norm Rice of Seattle and John Daniels of New Haven, both the first Black mayors of their respective cities, and Karen Vialle of Tacoma, Wash., and Martha Wood of Winston-Salem, N.C., both the first female mayors of their cities...
City Councillor James A. Sheets won the Quincy mayor's post while the mayor of Newburyport lost to his predecessor and Salem's top executive was ousted. Mayors in Lawrence, Holyoke, Fitchburg, Fall River and Gloucester held onto their posts...
...Quincy, Sheets beat business executive Peter F. O'Connell 17,553 to 11,454, to take the seat being vacated by Mayor Francis X. McCauley. Salem Mayor Anthony Salvo lost 6697 to 6084 to Neil Harrington...
Rounding out the rest of the eight-team regatta were last fall's GDBC champion MIT (94), Salem State (102), Boston University (103), Boston College (124), Northeastern (139) and Brandeis...
...composite sketch of the Salem witch can bedrawn; most of the accused were women, usuallyaging from their late forties to their earlyfifties. Of the thirty-one "witches" tried and putto death, seven of the accused were men andtwenty-four of them were women. These seven menwere also associated with "known" witches, and"...in most cases...the ["known" witch] was theprimary subject, with the man becoming implicatedthrough a literal process of guilt byassociation."3 The accused were usually wives andmothers of "...solidly English stock and mostly`Puritan' religion" (Demos, p. 71). In thesecharacteristics, the accused did not deviate fromthe cultural norm...