Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they responded by taking out paper and pencils. "Put your paper and pencils away." I said in mock anger. "You can't learn anything when you're taking notes." They turned tentatively to their teachers to see if that was OK. I read two poems that concerned a white suburb, similar to theirs, hoping that the proximity of the verses to their own lives would open the poems up for them. Some made it half-way inside, but most resided too close to their own growth to scrutinize it. As I sat before a hundred hairless faces in the aqua...
...given cars and drivers as well as large apartments and summer dachas at nominal rents. While Grechko was Soviet Commander in East Germany, for example, he and his wife Klavdiya had a town house in East Berlin and a secluded complex of five villas in the East Berlin suburb of Wünsdorf, attended by a small army of Russian maids and orderlies. Now he owns a spacious dacha in the Moscow suburb of Arkhangelskoye. When his schedule permits, he also indulges his love for hunting with frequent trips to military duck-hunting lodges. To be sure, the perquisites...
...Arabs and to probe for peace possibilities. But the demonstrations did nothing to improve relations, and Sisco found his hosts generally pessimistic about peace. He and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser spent nearly two hours together at Nasser's Manshiet al Bakri residence near the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis. Nasser concurred that a political solution was necessary in the Middle East but he was obviously disappointed that the U.S. official had come bearing no new proposals...
...born in Radzymin, a suburb of Warsaw, in 1904," he began. "But my parents moved to Warsaw when I was about three." For several years he lived with his grandfather in a village called Bilgoray. It was there that he acquired his impressive knowledge of shtetl life...
...Johnson, 43, got into the franchised fast-food business through a combination of belated Government aid and militant pressure. The Small Business Administration rejected his first application for a loan to buy a McDonald's hamburger franchise near a Negro area of affluent Shaker Heights, a Cleveland suburb, because officers thought the location he wanted would not produce enough income to repay the loan. They did not realize, says a Cleveland Negro leader, that to blacks "the hamburger stand is breakfast, lunch and dinner-they don't just buy hamburgers as a snack as many whites...