Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worst blizzard in the city's history had howled with little warning across Lake Erie and trapped 17,000 workers in their downtown offices. Some 5,000 automobiles were abandoned by their owners when all traffic stopped; police in the suburban town of Lancaster counted 66 cars in just one two-mile stretch of roadway, some with the snow piled over their roofs. Drivers sought shelter wherever they could find it. Some 400 motorists and stranded downtown workers slept on chairs and the floors of the Liberty Bank Building...
...pick up arctic cold and blocking the normal flow of moisture to the West. In California, the loss in crops and other agricultural production may exceed $1 billion, and the water shortage is already affecting daily living in some unlikely places. One is Marin County, an affluent, scenic suburban area just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco...
...rule. The Dergue seized power brutally in Addis Ababa and other centers in the African nation of 28 million people, confiscating weapons and executing anyone who opposed it. Last year, 50 militants, mostly students who had been suspected of anti-council activity, were shoved against the wall of a suburban Addis Ababa shooting range and slain. Many more killings have taken place secretly. One woman was presented with her husband's bullet-riddled body along with an explanation of his death from natural causes...
Politicizing sport, a dangerous business, is never more seductive than when one wanders in Montreal. In suburban Verdun, swarms of children trying to win a midget hockey tournament skate under a flag showing white fleur-de-lis on a field of blue. The flag symbolizes Quebec and French Canadian nationalism. In the Forum, one finds Les Canadiens de Montreal defending their National Hockey League championship in a setting that proclaims élan. Forum announcements on goals are bilingual. Always the French-"Montréal but par Yvan Cournoyer "-comes first. Watching Canadiens named Guy Lafleur and Jacques Lemaire outskate visiting...
...suburban Los Angeles department store one day last week, some 3,000 people lined up with copies for Haley to autograph. To his astonishment, he said, he "encountered only five persons who didn't have more than one copy of the book. Some came with as many as eight. One woman gave me two copies and said the second was for the baby in her stomach...