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Word: downtowners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cornell will need something to help it match up with the Crimson. Some outside force that can sweep over the Harvard bench and blow the Crimson off the ice. All the way to downtown Ithaca...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Icemen to Enter Big Red Country for Key Weekend | 2/10/1989 | See Source »

Residents deserted downtown Ascuncion streets Thursday when firefights involving cannon, recoilless rifles and heavy machine guns broke out in the most serious incident against Stroessner since he took power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Paraguayan President Forced to Quit | 2/4/1989 | See Source »

Some residents fled their homes, and witnesses reported seeing 40 to 50 tanks rumble downtown, where exchanges of gunfire continued past midnight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Paraguayan President Forced to Quit | 2/4/1989 | See Source »

...boiled over. On the night of the national holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and as the city was preparing to play host to the Super Bowl, a Colombian-born policeman $ shot and killed a black motorcyclist speeding through the streets of Overtown, a ghetto just northwest of downtown. A passenger riding on the rear of the motorcycle was fatally injured in the resulting crash. The incident triggered two nights of arson, looting and random shootings that spread from Overtown to the nearby black ghetto Liberty City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brightly Colored Tinderbox | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...drugs over the Washington Monument instead of fireworks. When the smoke clears, it is discovered that President Bush has painted the White House in day-glo paisley, and the Pentagon has given out free chemical weapon souvenirs to tourists. D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is found wandering dazed through the downtown streets, but no one finds that out of the ordinary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Remains of 1989 | 1/27/1989 | See Source »

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