Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moseley's-on-the-Charles, a small crowd early in the evening swelled to over 600 by the time the congresswoman arrived at 11:20 p.m. Hicks told her excited campaign troops that "We've very happy with the results in Boston, but the paper balloting in the suburban makes it difficult to call the winner...
...District's 134 Boston precincts. Hicks captured a narrow lead, but late returns from the 37 precincts in suburban towns were expected to offset that margin...
...political opportunities. Thus when reapportionment became necessary, he neatly obliterated the South Side congressional district of Abner Mikva, 46, a respected Democratic independent. Forced to run elsewhere, Mikva chose a newly created, relatively conservative district on Chicago's North Shore. Opposing him is Samuel H. Young, 49, a suburban attorney and political activist in search of his first public office. Young's campaign strategy is simple: to hang the McGovern albatross around Mikva's neck...
...major privately owned urban-transit line, O. Roy Chalk's 1,099-bus D.C. Transit System, Inc., is about to pass into public ownership. President Nixon late last month signed a bill authorizing the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to acquire deficit-plagued D.C. Transit and three smaller suburban bus companies. W.M.A.T.A., a public agency created in 1967 to plan and develop the capital's proposed $2.98 billion rapid rail transit system, will pay at least $50 million for the package, and will spend a like amount on modernization...
...trade unionist reared more often than not by a mother who laid the frequent back of her hand on every idiot potato and onion and lemon head of a kid in her brood, could now have the immense anger of seeing his leonine powers lifted by a horde of suburban ants who had never been stepped on, and now could hardly...