Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Accompanied by a 17-year-old niece, Palestinian Guerrilla Leader Ghassan Kanafani, 36, walked out of his apartment in a Beirut suburb, sat down at the wheel of his Austin 1100 and turned on the ignition. The car disintegrated in a horrendous explosion that killed the occupants and shook the neighborhood. Ten pounds of plastique had been stuffed under the right front fender; a hand grenade that served as detonator was wired to the ignition...
...blind boy has only recently moved into the Haight-Ashbury district from a plush San Francisco suburb, where Mom smothered him with heaping portions of maternal concern. A guitarist and songwriter, he is anxious to make it on his own, maybe put together a nightclub act. Everyone is impressed with his songs and with his matter-of-fact courage about his handicap. "You're a beautiful person, inside and out," gushes the girl next door, who rapidly graduates to roommate status...
...spraying again in June with a chemical called Benlate, which attacks only the fungus. Instead of spraying, the arborist may also inject Benlate directly into the tree trunk, which puts the fungicide into the elm's circulatory system. After testing the treatment on 600 elms in a Milwaukee suburb for two years, University of Wisconsin researchers report that the mortality rate for the trees has dropped from 5% per year...
Apart from his occasional feeling of neglect, Lolich is a convivial, freewheeling sort. To the dismay of his wife and Tiger Manager Billy Martin, he often rides a motorcycle 28 miles to work from his home in the Detroit suburb of Washington. Last year, when for the first time in his career he won his 20th game, Lolich sprung for six bottles of champagne for his teammates. This season, the honors that have long eluded him are in view. McLain is in the minors, and Blue, after a lengthy holdout, has yet to win a game. Meanwhile, Lolich is bewildering...
...signaled the worldly limits of the American dream. Now many U.S. families can hardly function without at least two cars, and so overfulfilled is the dream that at least one community has found it necessary to regulate it. To ease the four-wheel clutter in the streets, the Cincinnati suburb of Green Township now requires all new houses to be built with two-car garages...