Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Contra rebels fighting Nicaragua's Sandinista government as "the moral equal of our Founding Father's found surprising acceptance his month at the normally liberal BROWN UNIVERSITY, where students joined townspeople in re-enacting the Contras' heroie struggle. Over 75 "Freedom Fighters" staged a mock Contra take-over of downtown Providence on April Fool, Day, replete with khaki fatigues, mock rifles, and cardboard tanks. After an hour of make-belive firing squad executions of "communist sympathizers," the play freedom fighters proclaimed victory from the steps of City Hall and declared Rhode Island's capital under martial law. The phony Contras...
That's a pretty stupid thing to say. My upper middle class enclave just happens to be 15 minutes closer to downtown than the ones in the suburbs. Ah, but herein lies' "attitude." Admittedly, I think big cities should impose commuter taxes to force rich parasites, who enjoy the docile rurified advantages of suburban existence, to pay for their share of may city's public services. Of course in my mind, the city life offers many advantages over life in the suburbs, but that's just a personal valuation, and I have no business foisting it on anyone else...
...spent that Friday afternoon wondering around downtown Duluth, waiting for the evening news. Those few hours of innocence were the last I would spend that weekend without looking behind my back every few minutes for the mob. And its rope...
...also accomplished its purpose in giving Reagan and Mulroney an irresistible opportunity to engage in the kind of personal politicking at which both excel. (While the men negotiated, Nancy Reagan toured Quebec City with Mulroney's vivacious, Yugoslav-born wife Mila, visiting the Ursuline Convent and stopping at a downtown restaurant...
David Berkoff leaves for the NCAA Swimming Championships on Tuesday, and if he maintains the form he displayed near the end of the season, it's quite possible that he'll take of the best swimmers in the world "downtown...