Word: suburb
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...whom he takes obvious delight: baby-sitting his grandchildren and dining at home with his wife Alma (who doesn't want him to run). After a lifetime of Army housing, he likes being what he calls "General Harry Homeowner" in his $1.3 million mini-mansion in a Washington suburb. The general's missions: repairing drywall to fix water damage from an upstairs shower and messing around with the antique Volvos he loves to restore. Sometimes the papers he sends back to his office-he works mostly from home-have grease stains. Since leaving the Pentagon in September...
...ACCOLADES-AND THE MONETARY rewards-were gratifying, particularly to a working-class kid, the son of a plasterer from the London suburb of Watford. "He doesn't exactly throw money around," his sister Victoria, 21, told the Watford Observer, "but he feels we shouldn't go without and if he can help us, he does-he's our big brother. He loved his work and would put in up to 20 hours a day. He wanted to make something of himself because he knew he could." The press, she added, "seem to be saying that if you are working class...
...facts known about Leahy and Smith shedsome light on the young men's pasts. Both grew upin the Charlestown suburb of Boston, an area withone of the highest concentration of armored-carheists in the nation and a reputation with lawenforcement...
...risky dealings were detected last week when he ran out of money and asked the home office for more, according to a British government source. TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand says Leeson is the oldest of four siblings born to a blue-collar family in a London suburb, an average student who did not attend college and began his career as a bank clerk.Post to Business "Baring Bros. Collapse...
...plot they devised is set in the early 19th century, in the Russian town of Undergrad, a suburb of Moscow. Undergrad's residents--Undergraduates, naturally--are peasants. Beet farmers. Male beet farmers. And therein lies the town's problem. Among its entire population, there is but one woman: Katya Ballzov, a homely, hapless matchmaker...