Word: savoyism
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...Savoy I - 539 Washington St. - The Swarm...
...Aviv itself. The raiders-part of an elite, college-level group trained relentlessly in terrorist doctrine and tactics-had planned nothing less than the takeover of a large Tel Aviv hotel and the holding of its occupants as hostages, much as terrorists had taken over Tel Aviv's Savoy Hotel in 1975, killing eight hostages...
...Boys in Company C. At the Savoy One, daily...
...Loved Me. At the Savoy One, daily...
Benny Goodman kept his band's contagious new music around the top of the charts; he swung and America listened. Imagine one foot of one out of every ten Americans wagging up and down to the same tempo when "Stompin' at the Savoy" came at them over the airwaves. Imagine one out of every ten American pulses beating in four-four time. If it had social significance, it would have been a revolution. But it was a prescription for only temporary relief of discomfort brought on by social unrest. It solved nothing, but dancing to a swing band...