Word: suburb
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...wheelchair last week in a Los Angeles superior court, her head bowed low. McMartin, three relatives and three other women faced charges that they sodomized, fondled and raped more than 100 preschool children at a day-care center run by McMartin in Manhattan Beach, a coastal suburb of Los Angeles...
...Cardinal in his sermon did not broach his other problem, the transfer of Father Mieczyslaw Nowak from the Church of St. Joseph the Worker in Warsaw's industrial suburb of Ursus. The next day, however, Glemp held a 90-minute meeting with the banished priest as well as with representatives of nine of St. Joseph's parishioners who were fasting to protest the Cardinal's decision. Once again the outcome appeared to indicate Glemp's determination to coexist with the Jaruzelski regime. Despite the fast and the fact that many of Nowak's supporters...
When Meese went to Washington in 1981, he put his five-bedroom house in La Mesa, near San Diego, up for sale and bought another home in McLean, a fashionable Virginia suburb. But even though Meese lowered the price from $319,000 to $298,000, the California house stood empty for 20 months. As a result, Meese fell behind in his mortgage payments on both the old and the new residences- 15 months on the La Mesa property and four on the McLean home. His bankers did not attempt to foreclose. In the meantime, White House Personnel Director E. Pendleton...
Until the last minute, there was no assurance I would see Joseph Jackson, Michael's father. I doubted I would. The meeting place had already been changed from his home in Encino, a wealthy Los Angeles suburb, to his office, on the seventh floor of the Motown Building in Hollywood. At 1:30 p.m. my contact put in a call to the elder Jackson's office to remind him we were on our way. He wasn't there. We waited and waited. Finally Jackson's office returned the call. We got there at around...
...weekends, Heaney published two volumes of poetry, Death of a Naturalist and Door into the Dark. But it was not until 1972 that he reversed the procedure, choosing poetry as his main work and lecturing as a sideline. He also chose to move south, to County Wicklow, a suburb of Dublin, with his wife Marie and their three children. "I felt that by throwing up my job and moving and taking the risk of confronting my own emptiness I had the right to the word poet...