Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trespassers armed with only pen and paper, the scrutiny of the resident youth gang can be nearly unbearable. I passed through a gauntlet of youths with a pounding heart." His apprehension soon gave way to sadness. "While most Americans make a point of avoiding the bad side of town, those within dream of one day escaping. My depressing conclusion was that few will succeed...
...Harvard men's hockey team, Santa Claus won't be the only man dressed in red coming to town this Christmas...
...dual nature unified in Weston's work was evident early in his life. He was 20 when he left his home in a Chicago suburb to visit a sister living in a quiet town near Los Angeles. Eventually he was married there, established a portrait business and fathered the four sons whom he loved fiercely all his life. But a part of him resisted domestication just as fiercely. He found his friends and lovers among the pioneer enclaves of the West Coast counterculture, attic dwellers who shared his penchant for vegetarianism and modern...
Molotov's name was actually a pseudonym derived from the Russian word molot (hammer). He was born on March 9, 1890, into the Scriabin family, shopkeepers in the provincial town of Kukarka, northeast of Moscow (in what is now the Kirov region), a way station on the long road to Siberia. Young Scriabin chose the nom de guerre Molotov when he entered the revolutionary underground. While still a student in a czarist secondary school, he joined in the abortive 1905 revolution. Molotov helped start up the Communist Party newspaper Pravda and was an organizer of the Bolshevik Revolution...
...their time on a 200-acre estate in suburban Westchester County, where guards patrol a laser-controlled entrance gate to the property. Inside the Georgian-style house, paintings by Monet and Renoir adorn the walls, and valuable works dot a nearby sculpture garden. Recently Boesky applied to local town planners for permission to add a dome to the residence, to give it, said his architect, a more "Jeffersonian look...