Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...complete works of Zane Grey; his favorite author, he once said, was Lloyd C. Douglas (The Robe), whose novels he discovered while he was in prison. He lives with his attractive, half-British second wife, Gehan, and their four children in a comfortable house at Giza, a Cairo suburb...
Moncreiff was born in Evanston, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. He remained there until 1942, when his father was called to diplomatic service in Washington. Young Moncreiff went to public high school in the capital and then on to Yale, where his political hero was Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, "Mr. Republican." "I was a political moron in college, a carbon copy of my father," he admits...
...book has a fundamental thrust in dramatizing, through its narrative, how significant a mistake people make when they equate with satisfaction the general conservatism of an area like this Washington suburb. People trapped by a class system--or, rather, people trapped above subsistence level--find some way to cope. And if most people in the lower middle-class--the stable families--sit relatively complacent until directly threatened by change, there is a minority whose hard living demonstrates how much of the present the majority must mortgage in order to live for its dreams...
Speeding through the Paris suburb of Petit-Clamart early one evening in August 1962, the French President's black Citroën ran into a barrage of submachine-gun fire. The colonel riding next to the chauffeur yelled to his father-in-law in the back seat: "Father, get down!" The tall, imperial figure budged not an inch. Again the distraught colonel pleaded: "I beg you, Father, get down." This time the President leaned slightly forward. A split second later, a stream of bullets ripped through the limousine. When the firing stopped, Charles de Gaulle flicked fragments...
Ramapo, N.Y. When John F. McAlevey first ran for town supervisor of this New York City suburb in 1965, he campaigned on a platform of controlling growth. He had seen the local population triple since 1940. He also recognized that developers largely determined the patterns of growth, paying little heed to the integrity of the rolling landscape or to the tax consequences of their actions. McAlevey promised to save Ramapo from being submerged in a sea of little houses. He won that election and every one since...