Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Although Greeks claim that Turks began the latest battle by wantonly firing into the crowded market square in the Paphos suburb of Ktima, British investigators are convinced that neither side deliberately started the fighting. The incident apparently began when a Greek shopkeeper, Kyriakhos Mavros, fired a revolver at a passing Turkish postman, Cevde Mazlum, wounding him in the back and arm. Thus sparked, Turks and Greeks positioned around the market all opened fire...
...with their conspicuously missing pockets and would never consider having a mongrel dog. Unlike its St. Botolphs counterpart, the old family homestead in Quincy was not the biggest house in town, and his family was not the first family, and Quincy, of course, is a fairly routine middle-class "suburb" of Boston...
Died. Susan Edwards Wagner, 54, wife of New York's Democratic Mayor Robert F. Wagner, a quiet blonde from the staunchly Republican suburb of Greenwich, Conn., who, as hostess in the past ten years at Manhattan's executive residence, Gracie Mansion, entertained expedient thousands who roamed through the house pinching souvenirs; of lung cancer; in Manhattan...
...visible in one of the photos, the investigation did not take long. The Mustang's driver was none other than the nephew of Ford Chairman Henry Ford II, Walter Buhl ("Buhlie") Ford III, at 20 already something of a legendary cut up around Grosse Pointe, the baronial suburb east of Detroit...
Benedictus' pilgrim is a bowlegged 22-year-old named Bernard Chanticleer who "lives by love but loves at random wherever his love will stick." He lives with his parents in a London suburb, and agrees to go to work as a shoe salesman in the big London store where his father is a department manager. His parents provide him with a bowler, a pinstripe, suit that conceals his bowlegs, nylon underwear that crackles when he walks, and a small "pied a terre" (or, foot in the grave) in Kensington. He learns the sales spiel handily enough ("A beautiful shoe...