Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...granite-faced opposition of his uncle, Count Matarazzo, Baby took over his family's metals plant a few years ago and made it into the largest nonferrous rolling mill in South America. For his redheaded fiancee, Nelita Alves de Lima, Baby is building a million-dollar house in suburban Santo Amaro with two Turkish baths, a shooting gallery, a bowling alley and an outdoor swimming pool. It will also have a 130-ft. indoor swimming pool with a cascade of water 30 ft. wide and 21 ft. high at one end. By swimming through his waterfall, Baby will find...
...series of public meetings, it demanded that the gas people clear out of town entirely. A parliamentary committee backed the council up. So did the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The company had no alternative but to back down. It promised it would move to suburban Cowley...
...plants is that at Los Alamos, operated by the University of California, 35 miles from Santa Fe, N. Mex. From the air it looks rather impressive, set on the brink of a cliff in an almost uninhabited wilderness; but from the ground it looks like a suburban shopping center that has grown too fast. No one would guess from looking at the faces of its 12,500 inhabitants that in the forbidden "technical area" across a deep gulch, the most fearful weapons in the world are being designed...
...bachelor, Garner has a Manhattan apartment as well as a house in suburban White Plains, but not a piano. He putters occasionally with golf. A good part of the time, "I just sleep." He still cannot read a note of music. "It's a gift," Pianist Garner says. "The good Lord gave it to me and I'm trying to develop...
...Short Walk there is a new McGinley, not only warmer but better, a suburban Frost who shows all the signs of trying to slip unobtrusively from light verse into homely poetry...