Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic candidates pile up healthy majorities in such cities as New York, Chicago and Cleveland, they take a real walloping just outside the city limits. Adlai Stevenson's 161,000-vote margin in Chicago last year was more than erased by a 177,000 majority for Eisenhower in suburban Cook County, and Stevenson lost many a suburb far less prosperous than Evanston...
Last year, said Mitchell, a suburban woman told him a heart-rending story about how she and another faithful Democrat discovered each other in hushed conversations over the back fence and "sat out the campaign together, listening furtitely to Adlai Stevenson's speeches and staying away from their neighbors." From now on, said the chairman, the Democratic Party should get its faithful in suburbia together often enough to provide moral support for all. Said he: "We ought to take a cue from the churches in this matter. They have long made it a practice to visit newcomers and invite...
...have too many people who thinks the sun rises and sets on New York City." Certainly football coach Lou Little would be quite upset if the third group were suddenly taken away. Of 34 men on the varsity team, eight come from the metropolitan area, nine from the suburban area, and 17 from the more distant regions...
Behind the drawn blinds and chain-locked doors of his mansion in suburban Mission Hills, Kans., an old man last week waited in anguish. He was wealthy and respected, but Robert C. Greenlease. 71. felt the poverty of the helpless. His young son had been kidnaped...
...other U.S. community, Tannenbaum's Handwriting of the Renaissance would hardly be popular reading. But in suburban Brookline, Mass. (pop. 57,589), a good number of parents are thumbing it through-and all are doing so with a purpose. Last week they were collecting ammunition for the hottest school battle of the year. Their target: the exclusive teaching of manuscript printing in Brookline's public grade schools...