Word: gowanus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heaven now and don't know about it? Jamambi, jamambi, jamambi, jamac." After that, the plot thins, but it is the flavor that matters. On the floor, walls, ceiling are "toothbrush cockroaches, coffee cockroaches, peanut butter cockroaches," and "the Empire State has fallen into the Gowanus Canal...
...other hand, had barely limped home. They looked less like pennant winners than any Yankee team in years. Their pitchers were worn out from working overtime. Half their fielders were held together by adhesive tape. Even so, every bookmaker operating a safe distance from the shores of the Gowanus Canal chalked them up as favorites. Why? Well, there was that Yankee habit of winning the money games. And then there was Casey Stengel, who could always be counted on to outmaneuver the opposition...
There was little of Flatbush left in the dark-eyed, glamour-bobbed brunette who called herself Yvette Madsen. Only a hint of Canarsie in her consonants, a touch of Gowanus in her vowels remained to mark her as plain Jane Noack, a kid born in Brooklyn 22 years ago. Yvette was glad enough to have left Jane behind...