Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eerie Light. It was 8:30 o'clock when the big one hit suburban Flint. Cars and trucks bounced like baseballs through the ruined fields. Homes were flattened; factories, schools and shops were ripped apart board by board, block by block. After the wind, gas poured from broken mains, burned low along the ground with a sputtering blue flame. During the night, rescue workers burrowed for bodies in the eerie light. Flint's toll: 113 dead, 547 injured, $12 million in property damage...
Juan PerÓn received his late wife's double at his suburban home. "I had a little stage fright at first," she reported later, "but after five minutes you forget he's the President; he's just another man. He was very friendly. Very warm. Very enthusiastic. Very kind. He told me 'Your hands are just like my wife's.' He also said my figure was like Evita...
Mysterious Figure. Despite his widespread interests, Lindsley has remained an unknown, almost mysterious figure in the business world. He divides his time between his apartment on Manhattan's Park Avenue and a fashionable house in Toronto's suburban Forest Hills. He works up to 15 hours a day, much of the time poring over geological maps spread out on the living-room floor. "His work is studying his own mines," a colleague once said. "His relaxation is studying someone else...
...Belmont Park, N.Y., Greentree Stable's Tom Fool broke fast, led all the way to win the mile-and-a-quarter $58,000 Suburban Handicap by a nose. His time: a scorching 2:00 3/5, the second fastest time in the handicap's 67-year history...
...parishioners of the Episcopal Church of St. James the Less in suburban Scarsdale, N.Y. are not much different from hundreds of other U.S. suburban Episcopalians. Their recent ministers have not been typical...