Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have only one aim and one loyalty-to psychoanalysis." When Stekel big-heartedly attempted a late reconciliation, Freud turned a stony face to him. And when Adler died, the unforgiving Freud so far forgot his own Jewishness as to remark: "For a Jew boy out of a Viennese suburb, a death in Aberdeen is an unheard-of career in itself and a proof of how far he had got on. The world really rewarded him richly for his service in having contradicted psychoanalysis...
...mountains. There, under the leadership of a mysterious physicist named John Gait, they await the fall of the old, Socialist-crippled, soft and degenerate order, so they can build a new society. The mountain-ringed capitalist Shangri-La sounds like a prospectus for an exclusive, upper-middle-class suburb in Westchester, and is dominated by a slim granite column upholding a solid-gold dollar sign. (Readers who may suspect at this point that Author Rand's intention is satire could not be more mistaken...
...Achtung, Achtung!" In a Hamburg suburb, Ollenhauer lambasted German rearmament with the particularly hollow charge that it was lowering Germany's standard of living, then motored out to the East-West border village of Eichholz on what he hoped would be a dramatic demonstration of his concern for German reunification. Ahead of Ollenhauer's Mercedes went a grey Volkswagen with loudspeakers chanting: "Achtung, Achtung...
...second of three sons of Ohio schoolteachers, McElroy was born in Berea (pop. 15,000), grew up in a strict but comfortable Methodist household in Madisonville, a suburb of Cincinnati, early learned that "God will provide if you go out and scratch." By shoveling snow, wrapping laundry bundles, working in a cannery, he had saved $1,000 by the time he finished high school. A scholarship from Cincinnati's Harvard Club stretched the $1,000, allowed him to work part-time, have enough time left to become a big man on the Harvard campus-varsity basketball center, president...
Welcome the Day Shift. When the convention formally opened at Santa Ana race track in Manila's suburb of Makati, the delegates passed through turnstiles where they were shaken down by khaki-clad cops, standing beside signs that read: "Please Deposit Your Firearms and Deadly Weapons Here." Dutifully, 39 delegates deposited gats the first...