Word: bronx
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seniority the National League deserves first mention, but the Yankees' record for the past five years gives the junior circuit precedence. The Bronx Bombers have seemingly taken out a long-term lease on the American League, and despite a lot of gripes from the tenants downstairs they aren't going to give it up for a while, at least not this year...
...York. Aiming point: Rockefeller Center. The circle of complete destruction would extend from Spuyten Duyvil to the Statue of Liberty, cover all Manhattan, Hoboken, Weehawken, large parts of The Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Jersey City...
REGINA SILVERMAN The Bronx...
...Official eyes are closed or hastily averted from the increasing outbreaks of assaults with deadly weapons . . . While a student riot brimmed over into the streets in front of The Bronx's Walton High . . . a harried school official could think only of keeping the news of it from the press. 'We want to keep this down,' she pleaded. 'We want no publicity.' And this at a girls' school (enrollment: 3,150), where the situation is described by teachers and students as a 'powder keg,' with girls arming themselves with knives-their...
...asked a Bronx shopkeeper whose windows had been broken time after time by children from adjacent P.S. 51 . . . why he didn't take his case to the school principal. 'I should go to him?' he jeered. 'They break all his windows...