Word: manhattanã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...YORK—In Manhattan??€™s financial district, the mood was visibly nervous Monday, as many workers returning for the first time repeatedly cast looks skyward at the gulf of light where the World Trade Center used...
...remember the sight of that dark shadow speeding toward the tower, disappearing as it collided, then emerging as a giant fireball from the opposite side. We will long remember watching the collapse of the World Trade Center and the sight of the giant dust cloud that arose above lower Manhattan??€”towering buildings reduced to giant piles of burning rubble. And in response to these premeditated, murderous acts of mass destruction, American intelligence and the American military must respond immediately by securing this country and its people from any further threats and retaliating swiftly with overwhelming and unyielding force...
...Dodgers had also represented Brooklyn’s unique identity. Decades ago, Manhattan??€™s dominance in almost every realm that mattered—money, political power, press—enabled it to exert an almost tyrannical influence on what once had been the nation’s fourth largest city. This supremacy extended to the diamond, where the Yankees and Giants won pennant after pennant. In the Dodgers—a team that embraced Brooklyn’s underdog role and uniquely represented a borough rather than a city—Brooklynites found a metaphor for their municipal...