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Word: inns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...times the mayor seemed to be the only councillor interested in the human side of the evening's events. In the middle of debate on the complex Harvard Motor Inn development proposal, Vellucci brought up the acute shortage of textbooks in city schools...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: Textbooks & Lizards' Tongues: Monday Night With Al Vellucci | 1/25/1989 | See Source »

...latest storm surrounding him contains all the traditional elements of Barry turmoil--drugs, police mistakes and accusations against the media. Barry apparently visited a Virgin Islands official named Charles Lewis at a Ramada Inn at least three, and probably six, times. Barry claimed to have been there only once to give Lewis a report. In fact, the report had already been delivered...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Marion Barry, National Shame | 1/13/1989 | See Source »

...maid at the inn claimed that Lewis offered her cocaine, and Washington, D.C., police officers investigating the complaint left the hotel after encountering a Barry security guard in the hall. Lewis has since disappeared, and police found traces of cocaine on a table in his room...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Marion Barry, National Shame | 1/13/1989 | See Source »

...clam chowder. Someone murmurs that the Secret Service will close Ocean Avenue, the road that runs past the Bush compound on Walker's Point, for security reasons. "If they do that, the cars will back up all the way to Wells," moans Rick Griffin, owner of the Kennebunkport Inn, envisioning a traffic jam stretching to a town seven miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kennebunkport, Me. A Small Town Goes Prime-Time | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

...White House bicentennial celebration. Only one eyewitness account exists of the laying of the cornerstone on Oct. 13, 1792. An unknown Philadelphian related in a letter that the Freemasons had paraded from Georgetown to the site, placed a plaque between two stones, then returned to "Mr. Suter's Fountain Inn, where an elegant dinner was provided," followed by 16 toasts. The celebrators understandably forgot to record where the cornerstone and plaque were laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The $50 Million Face-Lift | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

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