Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these difficulties, however, could prove surmountable. The money began to flow while the New Hampshire votes were still being counted. In an Atlanta suburb, Hart workers who had assembled to watch the results on TV Tuesday night were so enthused by the Senator's sweep that they chipped in $1,000 on the spot and another $8,000 in pledges. "Not bad for a campaign that had been taking in $17,000 a day nationally," observed...
...watched the play-by-play artillery exchanges between rival Lebanese forces. Using sophisticated electronic equipment for pinpointing artillery targets, some passed the time making a sweepstakes of the hits and misses, as Lebanese shells exploded in the nearby mountains. Watching the Shi'ite residents of a Beirut suburb, Second Lieut. John La Torre remarked ruefully, "I guess they're just like other people, except that they've had a civil war going on for most of their lives...
...bearing the image of the Madonna, a dozen protesters proclaimed a fast; they would drink only spring water. Still other parishioners vowed to keep a daylong prayer vigil. The demonstration that unexpectedly erupted last week in the Church of St. Joseph the Worker, a parish in the Warsaw industrial suburb of Ursus, recalled dozens of similar protests during the bitter days of martial law. But in one respect it was remarkably different: for the first time Poles gathered to show their displeasure not with the Premier, Wojciech Jaruzelski, but with Jozef Cardinal Glemp, Primate of the influential Roman Catholic Church...
They met 18 months ago on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, where he was recording the funky album Too Low for Zero; but as they emerged from an Anglican church in a prosperous suburb of Sydney, Australia, Elton John, 36, and his bride, German-born Sound Engineer Renata Blauel, 30, were singing anything but the blues. "I really love Renata," John told reporters. "And yes, I'm nervous." John, who once described himself as a "male Betty Boop," reportedly gave his beloved a large heart-shaped necklace with 26 diamonds before flying to New Zealand, first stop...
...with the rest of the family) to Maine for the month of August in the hope of escaping the pollen that made him miserable." After enduring these hard knocks, this youngest of six children of well-to-do parents went to high school in Mount Vernon, a leafy suburb north of Manhattan, then on to Cornell, where he picked up the nickname Andy (after Andrew D. White, the university's first president). He won $1,000 in scholarships for his freshman year, against an annual tuition of $100. He eventually became president of his fraternity and editor...