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[US] US News & World Report 5 Dec. 84: Latest problem for cities in North: ‘blockbusting.’ [...] Baltimore case study of blockbusting method of moving Negro families into white neighborhoods.
at blockbuster, n.2
[US] US News & World Report 76 172: Most of them make you feel relaxed— they’re happy drugs. And this is the irony: We condemn our children when they use these drugs on the street, yet the medical profession is handing them out like candy.
at happy drugs (n.) under happy, adj.
[US] US News and World Report 12 Dec. 71: Brooklyn [...] what its residents call ‘da nabes,’ the two dozen or so ethnic neighborhoods that distinguish it from Manhattan’s concrete canyons [OED].
at nabe, n.1
[US] US News & World Report 99 43: [He was] recently freed from a US prison camp at Big Spring, Tex., that critics dub ’Club Fed’ .
at club Fed, n.
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