Word: downtown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...invent everything: dynamos, regulators, meters, switches, fuses, fixtures, underground conductors with their necessary connecting boxes, and a host of other detail parts, even down to insulating tape." They did, and on Sept. 4, 1882, Edison gave the order to throw the switch lighting up a small section of downtown Manhattan...
...beautiful Lahti to Callinan screen on first and ten from the 20 died when Callinan slipped and fell. A key third and two at Harvard's 32 became disaster when the Crimson clipped and made it a third and seventeen. Lahti's toss for Horner went somewhere into downtown Ithaca, and Millard came in to kick...
Organizers of the event--who have been hard at work in an 11th-floor office in downtown Boston--predict a happy, festive occasion. There will be speeches and lots of hand-shaking and back-patting. A lot of Bostonians have been scrambling for invitations to the event for quite some time. As he did at last year's dedication of the Kennedy School of Government, Kennedy is expected to honor the memory of his brother solemnly. But underneath the pomp and the social scene is a story that people still hesitate to talk about. It is a story of community...
...each of John Paul's stops on this tour, local officials were hard pressed to cope with the intense public demand for a chance to see him. In Boston, authorities worried about paralyzing traffic jams and decided to ban automobiles on the city's major downtown thoroughfares...
Hucksters were ready for the crowd, too. Though the rain reduced the expected throngs by about half, peddlers were out in full force, and in violation of a two-day ban on hawking downtown. Selling posters, records, flowers, buttons and even "Pope adds Life" t-shirts, they tried to make a buck off sentimental throngs...