Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seeing Europe first -even in winter. Many families are spending some of the gray days of February and March on tours. Four days in Rome are offered for $60, Athens for $100. Even for those who do not travel, Europe is in evidence. In Strasbourg's new suburban supermarkets, shoppers pick their way through oranges from Spain, smoked bacon from the Black Forest, mortadella from Bologna, gingersnaps from England and coffee-flavored hopjes from Holland...
...After six months with the combine, he had been offered a job by an American bank. Banking was one field in which no great knowledge or experience seemed to be required, and the Americans liked to have a few genuine Europeans on their staff. Now he commuted from his suburban home in Coventry (London's phenomenal growth had extended the suburbs out for a hundred miles or more) to the financial district...
Like many nurses, Lucille Kinlein, 51, considered hospital work restrictive. Frustrated by lack of authority, she felt that a nurse functioned as a mere tool of the physician. Unlike most nurses, she decided to do something about it. In May 1971, she rented an office in suburban College Park, Md., and hung out her shingle as one of the nation's first independent nurse-practitioners...
Conglomerating for Christ has obviously paid off handsomely for Humbard. His headquarters is the $3,400,000 rigged-for-TV Cathedral of Tomorrow in suburban Akron. He lives in a $225,000 house in Akron's West Hill, where the rubber barons reside...
...mother; the cost of the dessert at his daughter's wedding is more important to him than her marriage itself; and he cares more about his stomach and his clothes than about his wife. After Fabray leaves him he spreads his arms in despair and grimaces with suburban uncertainty (about forty times) wondering why she would rather live with a kindly Greek waiter on the upper West Side than share the fruits of his success in the wholesale lighting fixture business...