Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President de Aguirre admitted the fall of Zamudio and Derio. suburban villages, cried, ''Bilbao never has been captured ... I swear to you it will not fall now." Back and forth over bloody Mount Santo Domingo on the northern shoulder of San Marina Ridge swept the hand-to-hand fighting. Five flights of German or Italian-built bombers poured death onto the hillsides. Four battalions of Rightists held the Santa Maria heights. Basque defenders, punished beyond belief reformed for their last desperate resistance to the grim, tightening circle with which Generalissimo Francisco Franco hoped finally to extinguish the proud...
...redhaired, earnest, optimistic, so retiring that no newspaper has ever published a picture of him, President Park lives simply in suburban Haverford, two miles from his archenemy, George Earle. He is a pillar in the National Association of Food Chains, which has been creating an astonishing reserve of good will for its members by organizing selling drives to relieve farm surpluses. Last year it started off with a nation-wide campaign in canned peaches, cleaned up the glut in short order. When last year's Drought flooded the market with cattle that could no longer be fed, the chains...
Grey curtains of rain trailed over the slates and chimney pots of London as the night-before-Coronation fell. Under the square miles of rooftops, in the slums and swank mansions, in suburban villas and the fine hotels, "Coronation" was the word most often on every lip as Greater London's 8,000,000 inhabitants, plus at least 1,500,000 visitors from the provinces, from the Dominions and colonies, from the U. S. and from every country in Europe, Asia, South America, even from the larger States of India and tribes of British Africa, all thought and spoke...
Noticing a "For Rent" sign on a vacant farmhouse near Chicago's suburban Deerfield, a passerby stopped in to look around. In the backyard he heard feeble whimpers coming from a little shack, smashed a window. Braving a nauseous stench, he crawled inside, found six Scotch terriers huddled in a corner. Obviously near death from stifling and starvation, the six little dogs were rotting bags of bones, their teeth and gums infected, their bodies covered with shiny black spots where their hair had fallen...
...frantic obstetrician and an excited policeman chased through Boston last week, expecting disaster when they caught up with Mrs. Rubina Hartman. A few hours after giving birth to a girl in City Hospital, Mrs. Hartman, 33, had dressed, visited friends, then gone to her home in suburban Roxbury. Nurses found the infant lying alone in Mrs. Hartman's hospital bed. No mania impelled her, the mother averred when doctor and policeman reached her. She felt well; she had work to do at home; she was going to do it; the hospital, she knew, would look after the baby...