Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other clashes seemed to be simpler cases of racial antagonism. The Springfield fight followed heckling by white students of Negro youths seeking service at a nearby cafe. In the Chicago suburb of Maywood, the failure of a student selection committee at Proviso East High to nominate a single Negro girl for homecoming queen set off a protest rally in which some 500 youths hurled bottles at police...
...home and were done with it," notes Robert Lauter, vice president of Manhattan's R. H. Macy Co. Today, one out of five families changes residence every year, and it is a common pattern for a married couple to start off in a small apartment, move to the suburbs when the children arrive, shift from suburb to suburb as income rises, and then move back into the city after the children are grown-decorating and redecorating all along the way. Let there be a divorce, and the master bedroom, if not the whole house, is sure to be redone...
...alleged plotting began after Nasser, casting around for a scapegoat for his humiliating defeat, put the blame on his army and sacked 800 officers, including Amer. Holing up in his villa in the fashionable Cairo suburb of Giza, said the prosecution, Amer offered refuge to other similarly displaced officers, and more than 50 moved in. With them they brought seven truckloads of grenades, pistols, machine guns and ammunition. At one point, when government security forces tried to intercept Haridi as he went out for cigarettes, guards at the windows and doors opened up with guns, wounding two soldiers...
...Electric Chair. On the surface at least, Fred Esherick Jr., 16, is nothing like Gary Lee Miller. He had never been convicted of any crimes. He was not from the hill country, but from a clean-cut suburb of Cleveland. What Fred did was to kill his father. And he admitted...
Charlie (Wallach) is a failed vaudevillian; Harry (O'Shea) was a scoutmaster until his penchant for boys was discovered. On a cheerless Sunday evening in the dismal London suburb of Brixton, they are in their barbershop giving each other the full tonsorial treatment. This Sunday is particularly cheerless, since Charlie has been summoned to trial for "impersonating a female" in a club known as the Adam's Apple, and may face a jail sentence. Since the confrontation never does take place, the play's electricity is static: tingles of apprehension but no real voltage of menace...