(1) Tract housing, strip malls and public schools surrounded Southwestern.

(2) We lived in a little three-bedroom tract house with no basement, let alone a storm cellar.

(3) We had two darling babies, a tract house, a car and all the usual monthly payments.

(4) Heat shimmered up from the cars, and the sun glowed red over miles of tract houses.

(5) Eventually I tacked the map, considerably tattered and worn, to the wall of my room, on the second floor of our three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath pseudo-colonial tract house on Eliots Oak Road.