Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Some of those who returned to Beirut found that their homes had disappeared," cabled TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn. "Others discovered that while they were away, their houses or apartments had been occupied by squatters. In the Christian suburb of Ain Rumane, Dawud Karami found a woman in his house who not only refused to leave but taunted him, 'You can sue me if you dare.' Another returnee was amazed to see lights on and hear the sound of music emerging from his home on Hamra Street. It was occupied by Palestinian refugees who told...
...surprisingly, Bellow himself is the literal heir to two cultures. He was born in a suburb of Montreal in 1915, the fourth and last child of Russian Jews who had just emigrated from St. Petersburg. His father, an educated man, became a small-time trader and, in Bellow's phrase, "a sharpie circa 1905 in Russia." In 1924 the family settled on Division Street in Chicago; Bellow thus grew up speaking English, Hebrew, Yiddish and French. Twice-removed from the land of his parents-and a Jew in the predominantly Protestant Midwest -Bellow had good reason to wonder where...
...impossible to assay completely any region of the nation. The South is particularly complex and contradictory, a mix of modern and ancient, traditional and futuristic. East Texas, for example, is as Deep South in feeling as Savannah, Ga.; West Texas is truly western. Miami Beach is as much a suburb of New York?or Havana?as a Florida city. Yet there is much that knits this land and holds it together, with its own special character and flavor and language. If the South cannot be totally explored, it can at least be seen as reality, not as legend...
...inflation now comes first in Carter's list of problems to be solved. In city after city he stressed unemployment, claiming that "counting discouraged workers, there are now more people out of work than the entire population of Ohio." To a largely working-class audience in Barberton, a suburb of Akron, he declared: "Any Administration that can't promise jobs shouldn't be in office...
...this year on charges of obscenity and engaging in organized crime. The bride, who is the associate publisher of Hustler, will wear an ivory dress and veil, and her bridesmaids will be in red. The couple will live in a $375,000 Tudor mansion in Bexley, Ohio, a staid suburb of Columbus, where the good citizens have not exactly rolled out the welcome wagon...