Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spectacular red gloves, pants and hats and yellow shirts. They were followed by nurses, municipal office employees and flag-waving members of the Kabataang Barangay, a civic beautification organization for teenagers. Before long the Quezon and Jones bridges, which siphon cars across the Pasig River into Manila's downtown Ermita district, were too clogged for the traffic to move. By the time President Ferdinand Marcos, First Lady Imelda, Daughter Irene and Son Bongbong reached the Luneta grandstand in Rizal Park, fully 1.6 million supporters were jammed in front of them waving flags and shouting...
...Sadat out of control, or was he acting fast and boldly to take charge of events that were outpacing him? "I will never bow except before the people of Egypt," he told a cheering throng of about 2 million in downtown Cairo, "and I will never kneel except before God." The crowd roared its approval as Sadat dismissed the rejectionists as "dwarfs" and promised to press on for a just solution of the Palestinian problem, despite the "ailing minds of some of the Palestinians." Sadat's trip to Jerusalem last month may have shattered Arab unity, but there...
Except for this flurry and a brief offensive outburst by the Crimson at the outset of the game, it was like any other Tuesday night in downtown Hanover. The crowd was sparse, the Big Green offense was impotent, and Dartmouth's star center, Sterling Edmons, didn't even get his 20 points...
Center Brian Banks started it off with two short jump shots. Next, forwards Cyrus Booker and Gary Ackerman got in on the act by trading a pair of lay-ups. Then the guards anted up their share; Rich Bengel hit for a pair of shots from downtown and Glen Fine...
...plan for the Puget Sound area all the way from Vancouver, 143 miles to the north, to Olympia, 60 miles south. He envisions public financing of open spaces around urban centers, state aid to restore housing in the cities and lure back still more suburbanites, and the strengthening of downtown Seattle as the area's commercial center. Says Ellis, exuding the optimism of the frontier, "American communities can be places of beauty, civility and fulfillment - but they happen only when people make them happen...