Word: downtowner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...going to mention two words to you," a TV reporter told pedestrians in downtown Atlanta. "You tell me what they mean. The words are: Spiro Agnew...
...broken down to a large degree, even for South Viet Nam; since Tet, the police have been deployed on paramilitary duty, guarding against Communist troop infiltration. As a result, vandalism and robbery have become so commonplace that many doctors, lawyers and dentists in Saigon had to close their downtown offices...
Knoxville's power structure has consistently harrassed student body members. Over 400, about half of the student body, have been taken downtown for interrogation. Students report being asked, "Why is your hair like that? You and who else killed Boruff? Did outsiders start trouble over there? Who are the black power troublemakers...
...streets on the wrong side of the Southern Pacific railroad tracks, where rickety houses lean against each other, and whiffed the foul breath of penury. Nine businessmen rode with cops as they checked vagrants in "the Deuce," a neighborhood of filthy flophouses. Some men mingled with drunks along the downtown Tenderloin skid row. Several housewives spent a day just sitting in the Greyhound bus terminal, where they saw weary, worried mothers board buses with broods of children to start life somewhere else. Other poverty students vicariously shared the pain of knife, gun and mugging victims in the emergency room...
When I was fourteen and a collector of comic books in New York, I used to go downtown to a dirty loft its owners called The Memory Shop to trade early Batman comics for early Dick Tracy with a tough truck driver from St. Louis who fell by every month or so. He was tall and unshaven and sweaty, so it surprised me the first time when his voice revealed him a gentle nervous faggot. I would have forgotten him had I not seen him reincarnated last night as Flute, the Bellows-mender, later Thisbe, both parts executed by Woody...