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Word: suburban (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem with the Red Line is that it lacks dash; its outdoor stops at the southern end of the line are too sterile and ordinary to get away from a suburban sense of blandness. What would most improve the Red Line is a change-over to a new type of car which would allow riders to look out the front. This would maximize the line's basic underground strengths...

Author: By Lewis Clayton, | Title: Notes from Underground | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

...Blue Line is the baby of the system, a spur from downtown out to the Revere area, with only 12 stops of its own. The line has a suburban feel to it, because of its new stations with their shiny benches and photographic murals. For most college students, it serves as a link to the airport, ferrying people into the Green and Orange Lines...

Author: By Lewis Clayton, | Title: Notes from Underground | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

...from Pine Bluff, Ark., blonde, dimpled Martha made the scene first in New York. Her first marriage failed but her second, to Manhattan Bond Attorney John Mitchell, was a good one. Mitchell's $250,000 annual income provided a luxurious suburban home and still left enough to pay the hairdresser. When Daughter Marty was ready, she went to the best schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITIES: Martha Was Right | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

...alone in turning talkative. Federal investigators are expected to explore reports that she and other women working on jobs over which Hays held power took part in "orgies" at a hideaway in the Capitol-assigned to Speaker Carl Albert and known as "the Board of Education" -and in suburban apartments. Various Congressmen, staff members and Capitol Hill police reportedly attended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Indecent Exposure on Capitol Hill | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

...Longworth House Office Building. It has only two desks, while a dozen staffers are crammed next door into New York Democrat Bella Abzug's similar-size quarters. Liz claims she rarely bothered to go to the office. Indeed, she lived in a cheaply furnished apartment in suburban Arlington, Va., where shopkeepers at Vincent & Vincent Boutique recall her as a leisurely midweek shopper who showed no concern about being away during office hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Indecent Exposure on Capitol Hill | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

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