Word: urb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nigerian Pressure. For all its low visibility, the conflict is brutally real. The Nigerian army in two years has expanded to 90,000 men. In the process, nearly 20,000 soldiers have been killed or wounded; many died because of in adequate medical care. In the Lagos sub urb of Yaba, a military hospital de signed for 120 patients is overwhelmed with 1,100 wounded...
...University of Illinois at Urb ana-Champaign, students tried several ways of disrupting the campus. About 200 of them, led by members of Students for a Democratic Society, staged a "grovel-in" in the driveway of University President David D. Henry's house and read off a list of grievances including an appeal for more black students and a condemnation of the school's "white racist" policies. The students also tried to tie up telephone lines to administrative offices and to book appointments with campus officials in an effort to keep them too busy to perform their jobs...
Amer was kept under house arrest at his villa in the fashionable Cairo sub urb of Giza, where last week some Egyptian officers came to question him further. As the Egyptians tell it, Amer apparently swallowed a "large amount of poison pills" after they arrived, but was rushed to a hospital by the officers before they could become fatal. Back home the next day, he left his guards and entered a bathroom, where he swallowed more poison pills that he had concealed beneath an adhesive plaster on his body...
...lively Londoner, no explanations are really necessary. Talking the flip jargon that has become basic English for teenagers, jet setters and indeed any knowledgeable adult striving to maintain the illusion that he is at least young in heart, the switched-on London bird or beatle calls his urb "super," "fab," "groovy," "gear," "close" or "with it." "Ready, steady, go. There's a Whole Scene Going," chirps Cathy McGowan, 22, moderator on ITV's Ready, Steady Go show and London's favorite "dolly" of the moment, doing a deliberate "sendup" (takeoff) on the title...
...year-also make poverty unknown in Los Alamos. Most families have two cars and could afford better housing if it were available. Because of their comfortable incomes, uniform backgrounds and treelined, planned neighborhoods, some Los Alamos citizens have referred to their community as "a suburb without an urb...