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Word: beantownã (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2007-2007
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...recent spate of violent crime has Beantown??s denizens on edge. Since ringing in the new year, 16 murders have been committed in Boston—six more than had been committed by this time last year. Young people with promising futures are having their lives snuffed out mercilessly by bullets discharged from anonymous assassins’ handguns. The oldest victim thus far: a 27 year-old male...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein | Title: A Tale of Two Cities | 4/9/2007 | See Source »

While a native of Charlestown might “Pahk his cah in Havahd Yahd,” a Harvard scholar will park his Prius in a metered spot on Mount Auburn Street. Beantown??s infamously “r”-averse brogue is conspicuously absent here on campus. This slight difference in inflection underscores a vast cultural schism between those affiliated with Harvard and Boston’s locals—a divide that dampens town-gown relations and could hamper the University’s plans to expand into Allston...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein | Title: Culture Clash | 2/20/2007 | See Source »

...Muffled cheers and muttered encouragement directed towards the two teams were commonplace among us sportswriters by the end, and I couldn’t help but yell out in pain and disbelief when McDonald ended my school’s chances at reclaiming its spot at the top of Beantown??s hockey hierarchy...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AMOR PERFECT UNION: Women’s Hockey Deserves Its Props | 2/12/2007 | See Source »

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