Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committed against blacks and documented in detail by the Chicago Tribune last fall, have contributed to the growing disaffection of the usually pro-Daley black voters, who make up about 30% of the electorate. With the help of a forceful civic group, the Better Government Association, the Sun-Times revealed the scandalous land deals involving Alderman Thomas Keane, the mayor's "floor leader" in the rubber-stamp city council and the city's second most powerful politician...
...Monday the Israelis took us to Quneitra, capital of the Golan. Before Israel captured it in the 1967 war, it was a town of 20,000 Syrians. Today Quneitra sits smashed to bits, lifeless, under the blazing Middle East sun. It is this desolate ruin that the Syrians so desperately want to recover and rebuild...
Spokane, in the wheat and lumber country of eastern Washington State, was named for an Indian tribe called "children of the sun." Until recently, however, the 100-year-old city was gradually falling under the shadow of urban blight. Now one of the few internationally sanctioned expositions held in the U.S. since the great New York World's Fair of 1939 has helped Spokane (pop. 180,000) become once again a sunny place for children- and their beguiled parents...
...million cost of the fair, the city already boasts 7,200 new jobs and a $200 million boost to the economy. More important, perhaps, Expo 74 will attract millions of people to a city that was well-named, and long abused, as a place for children and sun...
...Arbor, Mich. The firm claimed that its scientists had briefly sustained a laser-generated fusion reaction and called its work a "definitive step" toward taming thermonuclear fusion-the same process that produces the explosive power of the hydrogen bomb and the vast heat and radiation of the sun...