Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...International Conference of American States, whose sessions had been so rudely interrupted by the outbreak, moved to the suburb of Chapineros and resumed its meetings in a high-school library. Like the scene, the atmosphere had changed. Now the chief delegates met around a long table, with Colombia's new Foreign Minister Eduardo Zuleta Angel presiding at one end and two Colombian officers clutching Tommy guns at the other. At one side sat U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall, his personal interpreter stage-whispering every word in translation, until the headphones system could be rigged up again...
...being bad with Maureen O'Hara, and when her husband, Robert Young, objects with some' emphasis, Webb keeps on shredding the lettuce that he has been shredding. "Life must go on," he explains. Finally he writes a book that exposes the little doings of everyone in the suburb, O'Hara and Young make up like sensible folk, and things are generally looking up, with Miss O'Hara expecting a fourth little boy. Three's a plenty, in spite of that coy look she gives us just before the Coming Attraction flashes on the screen...
...steelman among them, gasped. When they had helped elect Jim Duff governor in 1946, they had no reason to expect that he would be anything but "regular." Before he got to Harrisburg, the only public office he had ever held was the solicitorship of his native Carnegie, a Pittsburgh suburb. Besides practicing law, he wildcatted for oil with moderate success. On the side, he liked to read Elizabethan poetry...
...novel, his only one, Norwood; or Village Life in New England, which was serialized in the New York Ledger, and for which he received the then fabulous sum of $25,000. One of the minor characters was a mischievous boy from Hardscrabble, the poor down-at-the-heels farming suburb of Norwood...
Last week Mikolajczyk, sporting a new mustache grown during his flight from Poland, was reunited with his family in the London suburb of Kenton. Of his own escape he would say little, except that he had worn an overcoat and shoes bought in Quebec during the war, horn-rimmed glasses and a squashy old hat-"to make me look American." His thoughts were more on his colleagues who, like him, had tried to squeeze through the Iron Curtain. Grim news reached his refuge; he alone had made good his escape. Czech police had nabbed seven of his followers. The Communist...