Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blood Feud." Adnan Menderes chooses to treat such criticism of his policies as personal persecution. "This," he once shouted in response to a series of political attacks, "is not democracy; it is a blood feud!" He has cracked down on the urban intellectuals who are his bitterest opponents, just as they were Ataturk's. In one repressive move after another, he persuaded the Grand National Assembly to bar university professors from politics, authorize the forcible retirement of judges unsympathetic to the government, and establish heavy fines and prison sentences for newsmen whose writings could be considered "harmful...
...hard-hitting campaign for slum clearance, coupled picture spreads of slum dwellings (including owners' names) with authoritative how-to-do-it articles on redevelopment. Outcome: Hyde Park qualified for federal aid as the Midwest's first and biggest project of this type approved under the new Eisenhower urban-renewal program...
...city-killing potential is grimly set out: "An attack on 50 of our most important urban centers would, in the absence of effective defensive measures, produce at least 10 to 15 million dead, 15 to 20 million injured from blast and heat, and another 25 to 35 million casualties from fallout...
After being sworn in, Curry asked the Council for its cooperation during his two-year term. He said that "operation on many fronts simultaneously" would henceforth be necessary, particularly for an effective Urban Renewal program...
...article, James Reston will announce that John F. Kennedy is a social climber. An enraged Joseph Kennedy, John's father, will begin financial manipulations to buy society, on a nation-wide level. In Boston itself, residents of the Beacon Hill area will refuse to support the City's ailing urban renewal program. A spokesman will say, "We don't even know those people." The Cambridge police will break into the Lampoon building after receiving a cryptic message about a hostage. They will discover someone called April Olrich. A Lampoon spokesman will say, "It's the funniest thing we've done...