Word: uptown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these "French flats," patterned after Parisian apartments of the day, right down to the watchful concierge, caught on fast. Until the day it was torn down a few years ago, the building never had a vacancy. Moreover, it set the pattern. As the residential section of the city crept uptown, fashionable New Yorkers moved in evergrowing numbers into the massive and ornate variants of Stuyvesant's Folly that rose along Park and Fifth Avenues. They were solidly built, with highceilinged, spacious rooms...
...York's Jewish Daily Forward, the U.S.'s largest (circ. 70,000) foreign language (Yiddish) newspaper, a tireless fighter for the downtrodden, whose fund-raising efforts among New York's wealthy Jewish families won him the title of "the East Side's ambassador to the Uptown Jews"; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...normal state of affairs in this country for quite a while now. The glib and easy market researched laugh. 20 years ago the laughs came when the comic said Brooklyn. Today it comes when he says Madison Ave. The joke remains the same. It's just moved a little uptown...
Well, "shame! shame!" I cry. In the future my custom is reserved for the Uptown and Central Square. Cato
Bank customers also use the TV taxi. If a customer in the downtown office needs to discuss his Brazilian investment problems with the Vice President in Charge of Brazil who is uptown, they can get together on camera and even exchange copies of papers via a document transmitter...