Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, however, the Vatican reacted vigorously to Communist announcements that Prague's Archbishop Josef Beran had been expelled from his archdiocese and that his authority had been taken over by Antonin Stehlik, until recently an obscure parish priest in a Prague suburb. The Sacred Consistorial Congregation, headed by the Pope, issued a declaration restating the laws on excommunication and asserting that "all those who have contributed . . . physically or morally" to the banishment of Beran and to the subversion of the Czech church have incurred excommunication "in accordance with canon law . . . and will remain subjected to excommunication until they...
Loss of Hill 431 seemed to make the enemy's position south of the river untenable. Into Yongdungpo, Seoul's industrial suburb where U.S. marines had such a rough time last September, the dough-feet now walked without opposition. The town was silent and empty. After a while an old man and some boys appeared, clapped their hands, cried: "O.K.! O.K.!"' On stone walls, there were Communist signs: "Mansei, People's Army! Mansei, Kim Il Sung...
Brief Encounter set the story in a London suburb, told it plausibly and sensitively. Its plain, conscience-smitten lovers each nearing respectably married middle age, could never enjoy their unglamorous fun as much as they suffered their pathetic frustration. September Affair's lovers (Joan Fontaine and Joseph Gotten) have wealth, good looks, talent and an itinerary that covers Naples, Rome, Florence and the isle of Capri. They come close to eating their cake and having...
Rare Boys. Giles likes to say that the only art training he ever got was in scrawling naughty words on automobiles in the London working-class suburb of Islington, where he grew up. (His "racing family" refers to his father's occupation as a jockey.) At 14, he got a job sharpening pencils and carrying tea to movie-cartoon animators in Alexander Korda's film company, got his bosses to let him trace some of the smaller details in the thousands of drawings that go to make up a sequence. He taught himself drawing so well that...
Since its incorporation 25 years ago, the Toronto suburb of Forest Hill Village has grown into a typical, well-to-do community, with handsome houses .set off by spacious lawns from the tree-lined streets. Its civic boosters proudly call it "the richest square mile of residential area in Canada." The village has also become the chief residential zone of prosperous Toronto Jews, who today make up 40% of its 18,-ooo inhabitants. There has been little anti-Semitic friction in Forest Hill, however; the village long has been proud of that...