Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Strauss, who was an executive with Proctor and Gamble Company in Cincinnati, apparently heard a burglar enter his apartment at 144 E. Corey St., in the Mt. Auburn suburb of the city, police said. When he woke up to confront the intruder sometime Monday morning, he was beaten to death, police said...
...have proved to be erroneous in the past, he has seemed increasingly frail in recent appearances and has not been seen in public since June 26, when he was shown on Iranian television greeting a group of Revolutionary Guards at a mosque next to his home in the Tehran suburb of Jamaran...
...SUBURB THAT GREW ETHNIC STRIVERS...
...grew up in a voluble and protected community of strivers, where competition was prized and turned into social contribution. Brookline, embedded in Boston, has always considered itself better than Boston. A Revolutionary village, it had become so affluent in the 19th century that it was the first suburb in America to resist the cumbrous embraces of a major metropolis. The defiant localness and privacy remain, along with a communal apartness and vigilant self-government. The Brookline Citizen is aptly named. The '50s sense of asocial privacy never reached the inmost core of Brookline...
Moving back into his parents' home in Brookline in 1957, he took up law school and town politics with equal, because measured, intensity. While still a freshman in law school, he ran for the newly established Brookline Redevelopment Authority, a body reflecting the old suburb's continuing resistance to rapid urbanization. He was defeated, despite the skilled campaign work of a fellow law student, F.X. (Fran) Meaney...