Word: towns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less anxious to annex white suburban areas until services in the center city improve, and will surely be more solicitous of poor areas. Vows Ernest McGowen, a black mailman who will represent Houston's northeast section: "People in office haven't heard from this side of town, but they will...
Speaking of a small eastern Kentucky town, Nunn scoffed: "I know where Johnson's Fork is. My opponent probably thinks it's something you eat caviar with...
...threats have been delivered by Carter and his people," she charged. "I do not want to support a candidate because of blackmail and intimidation." Asked if she would meet Carter when he goes to Chicago for a fund raiser next month, the mayor snapped, "If I'm in town...
Arap Moi also virtually eliminated the illegal killing of game and the smuggling of ivory and coffee long tolerated by Kenyatta. Says one villager from Jomo's home town of Gatundu: "Everyone likes the President because he has stopped the outlaws, the poachers and coffee smugglers. In Kenyatta's day, you could see a big man with a number of jobs. Nowadays it is one man, one job, and we are all equal...
...understand the history of Italian painting or French literature or any other aspect of European culture. Americans are notorious in Europe for having no sense of history. This means that they do not grow up, as an Italian does, bombarded with dates and monuments and biographies. Every Italian town is a patchwork of architectural styles that children learn to identify. They are spoon-fea Church history, the history of the communist party, the history of the resistance, they memorize long lists of names and dates, and finally in high school they study both Italian and European history with great thoroughness...