Word: seedier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Relatively Closed Town. Hatcher, 35, the mayor of a smaller, seedier and far less diversified city (65% of the work force is employed by U.S. Steel), was able to tap foundations as weU as the Federal Government. When he threatened to re-evaluate U.S. Steel property, the results were immediate. The company started building middle-income houses, recently gave the city land for a park and donated some funds. Altogether, Gary has received more than $30 million in federal and private grants-more than in its entire 62-year history...
...literature that emanates from Savio's run-down apartment a few blocks from the campus -- toward the seedier part of Berkeley -- there is a real revolutionary tone. One leaflet circulated during the strike demanded that students be given...
Share & Share Alike. Closer to provincial university life are Leningrad's seven Americans, who live two or three to a room in a far seedier dormitory 15 minutes from the campus. They get a real taste of the Russian passion for sharing food, clothes, books-almost everything except toothbrushes. They also get a close look at the Russian mind. One observation is that Russian students almost never adorn their rooms with pictures of Marx, Lenin or Khrushchev; another is that they are far less interested in cold-war quarreling than in hot questioning about U.S. music, literature and living...