Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...From his suburban home in nearby Las Condes, President Salvador Allende Gossens reacted calmly to news of the attempted coup. In the first of four nationwide radio and television addresses during the day, he declared that "the majority of the army troops support the government" and asked that his supporters remain "serene" while loyal military forces cleaned up the situation. That they did: about 12:30 p.m., the leaders of the rebellious army unit had surrendered, and the first coup attempted against the Western Hemisphere's only elected Marxist leader was over...
...them to work at menial tasks for starvation wages. This sorry situation is brought to Shaft's attention in an unlikely manner: a large black fellow with a big stick chases the startled detective around his Greenwich Village apartment, brains him and bears him off to the suburban residence of an African diplomat, where he is tested, cajoled and finally hired to hunt down the slavers. It is not so much Shaft's social consciousness that responds to the African call, or even his continuing concern over his bank account. It seems that the diplomat has a daughter...
...Columbia. From Tuesday to Thursday, she occupies a two-room apartment on Manhattan's West Side and communicates with her husband only by telephone ($100 a month). On Thursdays she wings back to Cleveland. Her husband picks her up at the airport and drives her to their suburban home in Cleveland Heights, to their 18-year-old adopted son and their Saint Bernard...
Nettles Island is one of five camps run by Outdoor Resorts of America. With its neatly manicured drives, Nettles looks like a modern suburban development, except that the houses all have wheels. The parking sites are concrete rectangles, each with a short driveway, gate lamp, concrete table, benches and small lawn. From the trailers, plastic tubes stretch like umbilical cords into the underground sewage facilities...
Details of Ned's downfall have no place in a review. They provide superior shivers and inevitably involve placid Mrs. Ranchwagon, Ned's mild suburban wife Beth. The beguiled reader concludes that Author Tryon should in deed turn serious, but there should be no complaint if he offers several more volumes of excellent nonsense before doing...