Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...today's match against the Engineers, Rau is sure that the boys from downtown will bite his team harder than the Bulldogs...
Kennedy delivered his brief victory speech in one room of a fifth-floor suite of offices in downtown Boston that served as his campaign headquarters...
Field Coordinator Nick Nicholson was ready for trouble as he turned briskly into the Jimmy Carter storefront office in downtown Indianapolis last week. For months he had traveled around the country trying to sign up voters. It had been discouraging: only a few volunteers ever showed up, and there was rarely enough money for buttons and bumper stickers to soften up a sullen public...
...first clue to the identity of the airline bombers came from a taxi driver in Trinidad who overheard two Spanish-speaking passengers discussing the Cubana "accident" shortly after the crash. Port of Spain police found that the pair had checked in-without luggage-at the downtown Holiday Inn. The two men, Freddie Lugo and Hernán Ricardo Losano, were traveling on Venezuelan passports; they had been on the arriving-passenger list of the ill-fated airliner in Barbados earlier in the day, but then flew back to Trinidad. After deplaning, investigators found, the pair placed a call to Orlando...
...golden years of the Harlem Renaissance are relieved of their burden by a few admiring bystanders. Naturally, they begin wondering what those days (or, more properly, nights) must have been like, and in a transformation familiar to any science fiction devotee, they're whisked back to a '20s downtown speakeasy. The ensuing plot developments seem to exist either to show off more clubs like the Cotton Club, the Savoy Ballroom, and Small's Paradise, or to introduce more golden oldies...