Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small things," says: "When Olivier's Oedipus comes along, you're glad you can use a big adjective, or a series of big adjectives. And you're thankful that you didn't use up all the big ones three weeks before on a little suburban drama...
...Stewart, is one of the destructive type. Immediately, it is made clear that Weldy's parents are divorced, his mother holds him on a gold plated leash, and that he has a reputation for jumping any girl he meets. For these reasons Weldy hangs around with a group of suburban Amboy Dukes, whom his mother detests, rather than a young grind called Vernon, whom everybody else detests. Driven to extremes by constant date refusals, Weldy goes out to pick up a girl and ends up with a 30 year-old friend of his mother. What Weldy doesn't know...
...Happened. Naguib is a "strong man"-but he neither looks nor acts the part. He lives in a modest suburban house with his wife and three young sons, earns $4,000 a year, smokes cheap Toscani tobacco and drives a tiny German Opel on which he still owes three or four payments. Quiet and self-effacing, a better listener than he is a talker, he exudes an old-fashioned courtesy that echoes the prose of the Koran. How did this mild-mannered man lead a revolution in a land where corruption, disease, glaring wealth and bitter poverty...
...official period of mourning for Eva Perón ended last week, and President Juan Perón made his first public appearance since Evita's death to dedicate a big new suburban hospital named for her. As he arrived, the crowd automatically took up the old chant "Perón-Evita!" Then, in the first address of the ceremony, Peronista official Lorenzo Garcia invoked the absent Evita with a new phrase. His opening words: "Our mother who art in heaven...
...suburban Chicago last week, heavy rains drove black swarms of crickets from field and garden. Millions of the inch-long insects oozed over the streets and hopped into homes and office buildings. Restaurants closed in the face of the invasion; a few all-night filling stations kept their driveways clear by flushing the insects down the sewer with hoses...