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Word: downtowner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lightly-attended rally conveniently ended just as the 12,000 people attending the Summerthing Concert were pouring onto downtown streets...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Suddenly, The Streets Were Empty... | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

...Justice, was one of two antiwar demonstrations scheduled. The Greater Boston Peace Action coalition staged a candlelight parade following a rally on the Boston Common that night. The lightly-attended rally was conveniently over just as the 12,000 people attending the Rod Stewart Summerthing Concert were pouring onto downtown streets. Still, the candlelight parade had barely 1000 participants at its height...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Suddenly, The Streets Were Empty... | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

...certain nights over the past two years, residents along a street in downtown Tulsa, Okla., have heard puzzling, ghostly wisps of guitar music floating up from beneath the pavement. For a long time, no one bothered to investigate, thinking perhaps that a sewer worker was listening to a transistor radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Going Underground | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

...even Faulkner's hint at week's end of other concessions-might not be in time to reverse the upward spiral of violence. "No night passes without sporadic bombings and snipings, no day without bomb scares," TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast reported from Belfast last week. "On downtown streets there are almost as many armored cars as city buses. Steel mesh is going up over more and more shop windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Ulster: Steering Toward Civil War? | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

...crowd of about 4,000 had gathered in the Plaza Miranda, a popular political forum in the heart of downtown Manila's shopping and business district. They had turned out to hear speeches by Liberal Party candidates for Manila's mayoralty and for eight of the country's 24 Senate seats. It was a festive occasion; balloons floated through the evening air and spectators waved fans printed with the candidates' names and slogans. The makeshift stage, built with old kerosene drums and boards, was crammed with Liberal Party officials, the smiling candidates and their wives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Death in the Plaza Miranda | 8/30/1971 | See Source »

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