Willowbrook

[wil-oh-brook]

noun

1. a city in SW California.

Example Sentences

Held on behalf of disabled students at Staten Island’s Willowbrook School, the concerts offer a vivid depiction of John and Yoko at the height of their 1970s-era social activism.

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The three-storey site in Willowbrook Farm Business Park was planned to open in 2009 to handle emergency calls for Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire.

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The documentary abounds with crisp period footage of John and Yoko in the early 1970s, culminating, of course, with the August 30, 1972, concerts, which were held on behalf of disabled students at Staten Island’s Willowbrook School.

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In 1972, 29-year-old journalist Geraldo Rivera filmed an expose revealing the atrocities inside Willowbrook School, a state-supported institution on Staten Island for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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Authorities are investigating after a teenager was shot and killed around midnight Friday in the unincorporated Los Angeles County community of Willowbrook.

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