| 单词 | downtown |
| 例句 | And then after a long time, she said, “Part Nine— downtown.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z He headed for downtown Berlin, where he saw large mobs swarming around Jewish-owned department stores, smashing the display windows and looting. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Marvelous things were piled in every window along the streets downtown, and big organ music made the sidewalks sort of tremble. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Even before the Durham sit-in, hundreds of A&T students had joined the four original protesters crowding into several segregated lunch counters in downtown Greensboro. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A few months later, when Oliver was able to extricate himself from his firm, we opened our own office in downtown Johannesburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We took our usual route downtown, and ran into a bit of a crowd. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Farther across the lake I can see downtown Los Angeles sitting right next to the shore. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Body discovered two weeks later—on a hill about a mile from downtown Pawhuska. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z On Zenilman’s map the neighborhoods of East and West Baltimore, on either side of the downtown core, tend to be thick with black stars. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We drive downtown, to the Portland Art Museum. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z We had no stores up there, so we had to go through white neighborhoods to shop downtown. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Mom was a UX designer at a firm in downtown Portland, which sounded incredibly cool. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z One day I accompanied Farmer on a consulting appointment at the Children’s Hospital in downtown Lima. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Whether she’d gone to school or home, it was downtown from Harvey’s. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I think it would be pretty cool to have a place downtown, where you can look at the city lights at night. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z “Why would the hospital need her there if the fire’s downtown?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z That was the worst trip downtown in history. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She informed me that he was in West Street—the federal detention center downtown. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Pumping the pedals, he pushed himself to keep up with the vanishing trail, all through downtown Fry, finally ending at the door of the Nice Dream Ice Cream shop. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z It’s a fancy place downtown where a lot of senior citizens live, if they can afford it. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She concentrated on keeping an eye out for any of Riker’s Kidnapping Club goons and followed along as he guided them away from the docks and into the hustle and bustle of downtown Manhattan. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z But it used to be across the street from the rest of downtown. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z She used to have an office downtown, but David got kicked out of day care, so now she runs her tax- preparation business from our spare bedroom. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z But downtown could make me very angry, too. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Bright and early the next morning, Kyle, his teammates, and their chaperones climbed into their bookmobile for the drive downtown to the Lemoncello Library. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z The community theater downtown was designed with the pageant in mind, which means the women’s dressing room is four times the size of the men’s. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z With William at the wheel, they headed for downtown Washington again so that Elizebeth could pick up a briefcase from her assistant. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The three demigods stared up at the buildings <5f drizzly downtown Portland. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z So we have small talk on the whole ride to downtown. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z To the south, the amber lights of downtown Seattle danced on the waves. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Will you drop me off downtown on the way home?” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z “My mama wouldn’t let me go downtown without her.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z One day Ashima goes shopping in downtown Boston, spending hours in the basement of Jordan Marsh as she pushes Gogol in his stroller, spending every last penny. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The shuttle could pick me up from the student center at the university where Aaron coached, or it could pick me up from a downtown hotel. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In downtown Kinshasa, where a lot of the bars have television sets, Mobutu in his leopard-skin hat blinks on every evening at seven o’clock for the purpose of unifying our nation. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z All three got in a taxi and drove toward downtown Boston. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z After an errand downtown we reached the airport. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Habib had opened a small dry goods store in downtown Kabul to support the family after the opium crops had been destroyed. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Momentarily full from chips and salsa—almost too full; I could regret this later—I’m back outside, making my way downtown, back toward the Ripley-Grier audition studios. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Then he organized a committee of black leaders to meet downtown with the police commissioner. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Registration takes place downtown at the Clover City Community Center. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The new public library, with its glistening gold dome, took up half a downtown block, its back butting up against an old-fashioned office tower. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z He’d left hours ago, headed downtown to pick up money people owed him for some chickens he had sold. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I could immobilize my arms and legs, but inside me it was rush hour in downtown Phoenix. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z There were volumes of Afrocentric history like the ones that are sold on the sidewalk in downtown Brooklyn, social science primers, and an academic survey of perceptions of race over the years. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When the downtown train reached West Fourth Street station, Clayton was the first to push his way through the doors. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Aaron lived in a small apartment in a big building in downtown Manhattan by City Hall. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “Have they told you what they call me downtown at the school?” she asked. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z After singing and praying in front of City Hall, the demonstrators broke up into small groups and entered several segregated downtown businesses. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The man, short and dark, was trying to explain that he could get fifty dollars for the lamp downtown and had to charge her twenty-five. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She must be only twenty-five, and I remember Dennis bragging about how he recruited her outside a downtown temp agency with the promise of working in a multinational business. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Not that long ago, I went to the wishing well downtown. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z An elegant dome punctuated the cluster of official-looking buildings in downtown Brooklyn, and there was the wide stretch of Flatbush Avenue that ran from the ferry terminal up to the top of Dactyl Hill. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He was to go to the guy’s house at nine and get a package to take downtown. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z "What I thought was,” she said, "we’d go downtown and find out where she lives. Then just go out there.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The Thirteens’ third game of the season took place on a hot Saturday afternoon at Ebster Field, the Fugees’ home ground in downtown Decatur. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “I’ll get a bite downtown....Where the hell’s my other shoe?” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z And so I kept showing up every morning in downtown Chicago, at the corporate ant mound known as One First National Plaza. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The family was met by a caseworker from the International Rescue Committee, who helped them load their things into a car and drove them through downtown Atlanta, toward Clarkston. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z They have flash pictures of him leaving a downtown precinct house after his bail is posted. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I was in St. Louis, standing downtown under the Arch. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The crowd faded away, and all the cars downtown went home one by one. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z One of my internships was at The Phoenix, a weekly newspaper run out of a dingy storefront on Atlantic Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, near the old Ex-Lax factory. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Rather than fight the desegregation battle, Birmingham closed all its downtown city pools—both black and white. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Some Fridays, we walk to downtown Greenville where there are some clothing stores, some restaurants, a motel and the five-and-dime store but my grandmother won't take us into any of those places anymore. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Do the white people of Leeds know that colored children from downtown Birmingham are splashing around in their swimming pool? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z We went downtown and the clerk showed us a pair two sizes too big. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The station was right downtown and I had never seen anything quite like it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As I left the store to walk downtown to the bus station, Mameh handed me a bag lunch and kissed me and I was out the door and gone. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Compared to Vancouver, downtown Anchorage was tiny—more like a college campus than a city, but Hazel looked amazed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Did they even know what had happened downtown? Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The next month, five hundred students staged a peaceful protest through downtown Hampton. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He drank a cup of coffee and walked downtown to open up the laundry. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In downtown Boston, the buildings are tall and stately. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z To most whites, the reasons for the boycott that was devastating downtown merchants were mysterious at best and mean-spirited at worst. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z To the south, just beyond the green hills, I realize a hint of downtown Seattle is visible. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Hundreds of women converged on the Central Pass Office in downtown Johannesburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On Monday, October 28, Mrs. Huckaby notified us in writing that we were to contact our parents to come to a meeting in School Superintendent Blossom’s office, downtown, at 4:45 P.M. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s the kind of downtown that becomes absolutely deserted at night and on the weekends, except for a few nightclubs half-filled with the desperate and the desperately lame. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z We go downtown and volunteer at the Portland Rescue Mission. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z If we finish early, maybe we can go to the bike shop downtown and window-shop. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z There was never a place we could eat downtown. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z However, by the time Mrs. Richardson’s grandfather—by then a successful lawyer—was preparing to bring his bride home, downtown had grown noisy and congested. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z John leads us to a huge suite—seriously, it looks like a penthouse—overlooking downtown. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z We rode in silence back through the downtown area to the highway. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn't find out about the bus rules until Grandma needed to get a medical prescription filled downtown one day and our car stalled out. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Past downtown, a single road bisects the highway, and on that road sits Roscoe’s lone neighborhood and an elementary school. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z When the downtown nightclubs had closed, most of these Harlem places crawled with white people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He has moved to the consulate downtown, where he’ll be staying until his return to the States in late June. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z When the train finally came, I took a seat by the window and stared out at the rainy darkness until the train went back into the tunnel and took us downtown. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z At the station, he boarded the number two downtown express train and sat down next to four young black men. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Ellis, fifteen years old, Main Street, downtown Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z One is a supposed attorney near downtown Los Angeles. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The day before the election, a downtown art movie theater had its first desegregated screening. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Lush green lawns, wide streets, and clean, new sidewalks lead to a small downtown area with a library for Sunny and a record shop for me. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He couldn’t afford rent, so he slept most nights on a bench on Federal Hill in downtown Baltimore, or on the steps of a church across the street from his father’s house. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Ursula,” he said cheerfully to the HSS head, “let’s you and me go downtown and have a little drink to celebrate.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Marilyn, she worked downtown and her boss was cleaning his pistol in his office and accidentally shot himself to death, and Marilyn had to step over his body to get out of there. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Often this meant making a trip into downtown Washington, but sometimes she had to travel much farther to get the information she needed. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I did see her once downtown, when my folks were taking me to visit our lawyer. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z I glanced out the back window as the funeral procession moved into downtown. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Police decked out in riot gear closed all restaurants and patrolled downtown streets. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The Amsterdam News and Ebony always printed pictures of blacks who worked in downtown offices or who had achieved some small recognition. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Ivy walked away from downtown, away from the inn. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z A million little kids were downtown with their mothers, getting on and off buses and coming in and out of stores. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Anyway, Mary Elizabeth and I went to see a movie downtown. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z After awhile, I worked downtown for a Jew. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Not just in my thoughts and dreams, but on TV, on the internet, on posters all over downtown. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z With my head held high, I walked to the Pizitz department store in downtown Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Then I said, "Hey, do you mind turning around when you get a chance? I gave you the wrong address. I want to go back downtown." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Some of those who took the bargain—thus accepting the permanent strike on their record—were promptly brought to the police station downtown, where they began repairing and repainting the damaged offices. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She has tired of spending Sunday morning, her sole day off, downtown at the storefront Internet store dialing Enrique. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z One of those ones they saw on a field trip to the small art museum downtown. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z There was no Plan B. At least he could take the train from Richton Park downtown. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He would not fire a number of white employees at City Hall and replace them with blacks, and he could not impose a hiring quota for black clerks at a downtown store. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Standing on Main Street, staring at the corpse of Clover’s downtown, it felt like everything related to Henrietta’s history was vanishing. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The farther downtown he got, the more police officers he saw. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The taxi drove through downtown, past a bunch of tourists’ shops advertising furs, Native American art, and gold. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I don’t know how many forty- and fifty-year-old errand boys went down the Hill dressed like ambassadors in black suits and white collars, to downtown jobs “in government,” “in finance,” or “in law.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z On the corner, several storm troopers, or the SA, as members of Hitler's private army are called, are passing out white leaflets that announce a victory parade through downtown Hamburg that night. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “How many rooms, if it’s downtown or not, if it has a good view or not.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z We got a little lost downtown and made it to the concert hall with only a few minutes to spare. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Those matches were big events in my life because we traveled downtown to the Robinson Auditorium, a place usually reserved for white people only. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In a few minutes I was several blocks away, having moved to the next avenue and downtown. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t worry about that, Cook, I’ll be eating downtown, and I’m sure Mother will spend the rest of the day sleeping.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Through the frosty glass, downtown’s streetlamps and neon lights slide by. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Up and down the streets of downtown Vancouver, Memorial Cup banners hung from the lampposts. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It was thirteen miles from downtown Atlanta, a city with a growing economy and a need for low-skilled workers. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z On a cold, clear day in early December I found myself downtown in some Wall Street guy’s conference room for my Yale interview. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Filthy, dazed, and hungry, they wandered on foot from the train station to Vancouver’s brick downtown in a cold, dismal rain. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Mom explained that Grandma Smith had owned two houses, the one she lived in with the green shutters and French doors, and an older house, made of adobe, in downtown Phoenix. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z As a seamstress at a downtown department store, she repaired, altered, and steam-pressed clothing—work known and respected by both the black professional class and ordinary workers. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Riding downtown for the piano recital, I sat in the backseat of the Buick wearing a nice dress and patent leather shoes, my hair in pigtails, experiencing the first cold sweat of my life. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Neither of them had ever been radical—even at a time of protests, sit-ins, marches, riots—but now they owned two houses, four cars, a small boat they docked at the marina downtown. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I simply slipped my papers into my brief case and left as though going downtown for a meeting. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “I had the night off. Watched basketball at a bar downtown, then went to a guy’s house to play poker. Won eighty bucks. Gave me a hell of an alibi.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z We met Auma at a downtown train station, and the three of us boarded a passenger train with slatted windows to head west out of the city and toward the Obama family’s ancestral home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Instead of walking home after school today, I take the bus downtown. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Before I see it, I hear downtown, thick with beeps, shouts, police whistles. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She walked off a ferry and arrived in downtown Seattle that September desperately needing a place to live and a way to pay for her tuition, her food, and her books. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Or they took up positions in the glitzy new downtown hotels and restaurants, waiting on tables and cleaning floors. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z That dog was probably from the shelter in downtown New Orleans. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z “You were hanged in effigy from the center red- light wire downtown on Main Street this morning.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Her husband was en route to work downtown and would not be there for another thirty-five minutes at least. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “The president has been shot as his cavalcade went through downtown. Our own Governor Connally was also shot.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We enter downtown and Book Girl is still on the bus. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z There, in the downtown Greyhound bus terminal, the smuggler tells Lourdes to wait while he runs a quick errand. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Zeitoun, assuming that whatever was ailing the city was likely worse downtown, chose not to get too close to the epicenter. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Except in New York parlance where “north” and “south” are “uptown” and “downtown.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Eventually, Herbert found a permanent job as a janitor with the United States Radium Corporation in downtown New York. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I would never have given it another thought, except that this downtown “leader” was standing, staring after that hustler, looking as if he’d just heard Sanskrit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z As I walk to the bus, I watch a helicopter fly toward downtown until it disappears into a tiny black speck. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He said the Butler on Rampart Street was as good as any, and told me what bus to take from downtown. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z On the downtown streets of Kilgore, people milled about on the narrow sidewalks, looking at shop displays and admiring the strands of lights that decorated the businesses. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Since I knew little of the Mobile of today, my young friend let me out downtown near the bus center. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z What’s left of it sits in an overgrown field on the outskirts of downtown Indianapolis. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Sergio was picked up on Route 32 in downtown Albany, and nobody would say for sure how long he had been wandering. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Not long afterward, the onetime insurance salesman opened a business in downtown Fairfax, peddling bona fide policies. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z They had arrived the evening before conclave, and stayed in a downtown hotel. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Annabeth stared at the distant shape of the Argo II floating above downtown Sparta. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The people in my neighborhood hang out in downtown Newark, but I ain’t never heard of nobody actually shopping in Bamberger’s. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Fifteen and a third inches had fallen downtown, still the all-time record for any month of the year. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z We parade through the streets of Underhill, past the site of the shooting, making our way toward police headquarters and City Hall downtown. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He knew that look; had seen it often enough in his childhood when he had accompanied his father downtown. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Mary is one of those smart sisters who has a good job downtown. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I met Max at a downtown basement club a few months ago. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He steered the car in the direction of downtown San Francisco once again. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z One of these days I’m going to walk into the house and the news guy on TV will be reporting a hit-and-run that just happened downtown. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Then, on the overnight layover, I naturally went sightseeing in downtown Washington. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z After he parked downtown in front of the department stores, Ben rolled down his window and called back to Tommie. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Even the friendly librarians downtown have banned them from story time unless they come with two escorts—and harnesses. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “It appears the only way to get action is to hit the streets and go downtown!” she shouted. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I climb on his bicycle carrier while he pedals us into the small downtown. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Before Finch takes me home, he drives straight to the Quarry in downtown Bartlett, where they don’t even check our IDs. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z We drive through the crowded, sunny streets of downtown Seattle, and we arrive at the pier just as the Seattle-Bainbridge Island ferry is boarding. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He worked downtown and took on a wide variety of cases, from traffic tickets to criminal defense. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Cabot’s uncle Jeff asked him after the graduation ceremony, as the family gathered in a restaurant near downtown Atlanta. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Not a good place to get caught by street police and taken downtown for questioning. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z We made plans to meet downtown, but then I had to cancel because we were driving out to visit Tata and Poppa for the weekend. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z The three lawyers took a cab to the courthouse downtown. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The Shop-a-Rama had ninety stores at its peak, many of them locally owned, and was Levittown’s best approximation of a downtown. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z We got the train downtown to the hospital and Moms wasn’t talking much. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z After the children's march in the streets of downtown Birmingham, Dr. King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference drew heavy criticism for putting children in harm’s way. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He has a stop to make downtown at Wimpy’s anyway. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The “boys”? Those cement faces and eyes of hate that burned the clothes off you if they happened to see you lounging on the main street downtown on Saturday. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The man looked like someone you’d see on the street downtown, except instead of bills and coins in the instrument case, people had dropped little vials of colored powders and liquids. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z She’s enrolled in nursing school and works as a waitress at a Mexican restaurant downtown. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Ella glanced at the downtown docks, only a few hundred yards away. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “I bet you a good momma. I seen you and that boy downtown plenty times, and I always thought what a fine-looking big boy he was. He kinda stands out, you know?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If you’re heading downtown from Central Park, my advice is to take the subway. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z For most whites, the primary accomplishment was that they could go back downtown without facing marchers and picket lines. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z From when she went to the Performing Arts School with him, in downtown Pittsburgh, before her mom got sick and they had to move back to Jankburg. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Sometimes I made as many as five in one day, both downtown and in Harlem. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “I came by to see if you’d like to come downtown with me for supper. We could talk,” he says and stands up. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z One of my black classmates, a nerdy boy who was always kind to everyone, had parents who’d founded a big beauty-supply company and lived in one of the ritziest high-rises downtown. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Their wages wouldn’t even get them out of debt to my grandmother, not to mention the staggering bill that waited on them at the white commissary downtown. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Right in the middle of downtown Cincinnati, we walked with our heads held high, acting as proud as could be. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Five minutes later, they’re soaring away from downtown LA, heading east. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z If the police were busy downtown at the library, investigating the theft of the missing books, it would take them maybe ten minutes to race all the way up to the motel. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z You could go downtown and see colored people working in the dime store behind die counters, even handling money with cash-register keys around their necks. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z So I checked in to the downtown Holiday Inn, sat on the bed, phone in my lap, and dialed Sonny’s pager. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z By this time, however, the bus had got so far downtown that none of them minded having to get out into the street. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z It was a standard sheet, apparently, that they gave all the new recruits at the Anthem Mental Health Center, the building in downtown Brooklyn where this brain evaluation was taking place. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z It engineered a successful campaign to force an adult bookstore out of the downtown. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The Christmas before last I took her downtown shopping with me. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z As the bus moved east along Dexter Avenue, the seats filled up block by block with white passengers getting off work from the downtown stores and offices. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “I hear the New Dealers took over a building downtown to organize the volunteers,” Kermit piped up. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z She helped Mrs. Farkas bathe, took care of the house, and prepared the evening meal before she left in time to catch the 5:35 city bus back downtown. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “My meeting is at nine o’clock but it’s all the way downtown,” her mother told her. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z When they were several hundred strong, the marchers headed up Fayetteville Street toward the center of downtown Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They go to darkened, humble-looking restaurants downtown where the tables are tiny, the bills huge. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It was at this popular dance club downtown. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z She knew where to find them—which downtown bars they liked. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It must have been five in the morning when, downtown, I woke up a white actor I knew who lived in die Howard Hotel on 45th Street, off Sixth Avenue. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all headquartered in downtown Manhattan, in and around Wall Street, in somber, granite-faced buildings. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z By standing at the left side of the window and laying my cheek to the woodwork, I could see downtown to where the UN balanced itself in the dark, like a weird green Martian honeycomb. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z So the next time Mama worked outside the house, I was sent to my aunt Nancy, my father’s sister, who lived in downtown New York. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z We spend the afternoon wandering through downtown Athens—past music venues and into vintage clothing shops, where Abby spends her food money on a pair of faux leather ankle boots. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z "Had to go downtown, pick up something for Bud." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Joe couldn’t do what he most wanted to do, to take Joyce out to the swank places downtown that many of her friends frequented. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Mr. Smith managed the public swimming pools in Leeds, Alabama, a small city about twenty miles east of downtown Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Very famous! Right downtown. Is that where you wanted to go?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “I got me a fine boy that you can see up on the store street selling flower to the folk that come downtown.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside the auditorium Fuller found a seething crowd, impatient to unleash its fury in a march on downtown Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Farmersburg is one of these small and quiet Indiana cities filled with small and quiet houses and a small and quiet downtown. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z We took the package Frank was given to an apartment downtown near Roosevelt Hospital. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Even if it’s busy downtown streets and an exit ramp, it’s not the damage from miles behind them. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I think about the spit you sometimes see, downtown, on the sidewalk; or cow’s tongues in butcher’s shops. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Remember when we used to go downtown and take our pictures at Union Station? We thought we were so sharp!” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Even the fire engines and ambulances seemed to have stopped their downtown runs. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z It was better than being beaten up, though, and I went downtown with him to the Port Authority bus terminal on 42nd Street. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z They turned around and headed quickly back downtown. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Come on, Fabulous. Get in. Pri went all the way downtown thinking you got on some bus to go to New Jersey.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z There’s not much of a crowd, because not that many people live around here and some of them have probably gone farther downtown, to where there are sidewalks. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z At the end of every winter Momma and Dad would go downtown to Montgomery Ward’s when gloves were going on sale and buy six pairs for us kids. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She works downtown and still lives with her parents. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The threat of violence didn’t just come from law enforcement officers, marchers were told; waiting for them downtown were members of the Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The next morning, Uhmma tries to explain that Apa must have slept downtown in his car because he was so tired. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z For her, Pedro moved out of his neighborhood into a downtown apartment, thereby, without intending to do so, ascending to the middle class to which he had never aspired. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z After a quick meal of macaroni and applesauce in the car—smart Mom, nothing red—we head downtown. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Even though the laws have changed my grandmother still takes us to the back of the bus when we go downtown in the rain. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Now, sometimes, I smoked opium with some white friends, actors who lived downtown. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z East let me out of the car in downtown New Orleans, on Canal Street. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Me and my brother Michael were selling papers downtown. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They all found things to stare at in the elevator, and they each looked out a different window as Spoon drove downtown. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Neeley worked as errand boy in a downtown New York brokerage house. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I know they’ve sent countless packages that are piled up somewhere in the great, crumbling postal edifice downtown. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s where we go now on Saturday mornings, bareheaded, jerking downtown stop by stop on the streetcar. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z We grew excited thinking about the march in downtown Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Most of the buildings were new to her, but the grid of downtown streets seemed familiar. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Fine. You can have the pasta with peas and cauliflower. We’re taking a bus downtown. It’s suppertime!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z To his right was a small downtown area—an almost cozy-looking cluster of towers between the banks of the river and a line of misty forested hills. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Arion shot away from the Amazons and sped through downtown Seattle. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She lugged the view camera downtown to photograph a rusty bridge stretching over the spot where the three rivers collided. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I ride the bus downtown—an hour’s trip—and quickly walk the rest of the way in the cool morning air. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, after we’d collected about ten huge garbage bags full of coats, my mom and dad and I drove all the way downtown to the Bowery Mission to donate the coats. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z I ran into him Tuesday downtown at the P&S Drugstore, where he was slouched against the front wall looking bored and smoking filterless Viceroys. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z The once marginal, second-tier law firms started by the people who couldn’t get jobs at the downtown firms ten and fifteen years earlier. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “The courthouse, quickly. The night court should still be open downtown, unless the riots shut it down.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Ml hand out tokens to all my friends so they got no excuse not to take the ride downtown, okay? Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But what most surprised me in Namibia was a street sign: one of downtown Windhoek’s main roads was called Goering Street! Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The tall businesses of downtown Oakland morphed first into blocks of condos and apartment buildings, then into the quaint, small-town feel of Piedmont. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I drove right through downtown and got on Highway 51 and headed for New Orleans. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Hagar stuffed two hundred dollars and seventy-five cents into her purse and headed downtown, still whispering to herself every now and then, “No wonder.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Just getting to school for my first day of ninth grade was a whole new odyssey, involving ninety minutes of nerve-pummeling travel on two different city bus routes as well as a transfer downtown. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The life is slower, the people are friendlier—” “Oh yeah,” Dad interrupted, “they’re a laugh a minute down there. Let’s see, where was that ‘Coloreds Only’ bathroom downtown?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1959 Permian opened, and it hastened the migration of affluent whites away from the downtown to the northeast part of Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn't know what to make of it, since there had been no such change of program downtown. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z In another picture, Ahmad was standing in the middle of downtown New Orleans. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The sole light came from a helicopter circling downtown, looking tiny and powerless in the distance. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Together the three of us sneaked through the side streets of downtown while a huge column of smoke billowed up behind us from my school gymnasium. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z By this time, it seemed to me the white folks had everything—the transportation, the housing, the grocery stores, the downtown department stores, and even all the policemen and firemen. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I avoided going downtown, going into any of the stores for fear my presence would embarrass people who had been my friends. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He will be Jewish, of course, and so, locked out of the old-line downtown law firms on account of his “antecedents.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Peaches and me had gone downtown earlier looking for a wedding gift for her moms and Big Joe. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Parts of Maplewood literally looked like a stand-in for a 1950s movie set, particularly the downtown area with its restaurants, cafes, bakeries, and bookstores. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z If only I had resisted being shifted downtown I would now have enough support in the community to insist that they reveal themselves. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z So we drive downtown to the Sports Stop, and since I’m still in my shorts, I have her go in without me. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z “Oops. Wait. More than a couple of times. Whenever I go downtown I'm east of Arlington.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Ben had seen the flower boy each time he had ventured downtown on River Street. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early morning you hear the clang of the garbage trucks, then the low growl of the buses and you know the people who got work are starting off downtown to their jobs. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z “But I’m getting through it. Just needed some time. I’m thinking about going downtown to see Pooh tomorrow. You wanna come? We can go after your ACT prep.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z How about the carnival downtown Saturday night, 8 pm? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Once he had crawled up there and stood on the bridge, looking down at the shelter, and then around at the street where it crossed the tracks; he could even see downtown. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z One time, he remembered, she had gone downtown to the gas and electric company because they had cut off the heat. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Anderson appeared at Armstrong High again in 1937, but as the demand for tickets to her performances continued to grow, Howard University rented the still larger downtown Rialto Theater for her 1938 concert. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Stuyvesant was in decrepit condition, tucked all the way downtown, nearly an hour’s travel from Harlem. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z That was because the name on the folded paper was not Cool Papa Byrd, as he was known on the blues circuit, uptown and downtown. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Jack’s heroes were usually muscular, but this one was tall and very thin and wearing an actual suit and tie, like someone you might run into downtown. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z How many kids are we talking about who began wearing the shoes in downtown Manhattan? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “The San Antonio River. It flows lazy, through downtown. The River Walk, it’s called. Weekends, there’s partying. People in small boats, some eating, drinking by the river. All kinds of music. Mariachi, jazz, pop.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z Today I meet Connor on Devon Avenue after successfully lying to Amá about a homework assignment that supposedly requires me to go to the Cultural Center downtown. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He points downtown at a building just past the cheap pizza place: Montego’s Discount Warehouse, advertising its tremendous deals with a waving plastic banner. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z John White Sr. gave up his office in the Alaska Building downtown and set up an office upstairs in the house on the lake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The downtown buildings radiated heat like giant toasters in the midday July sun, making my dress stick to my legs. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z That morning I took a bus downtown and walked into the Public Health Department. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to the Bay Area’s high-tech boom, long-vacant historic buildings downtown are filling with startups, boutiques peddling handmade jeans, and nightspots serving seven-ingredient cocktails. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z So we celebrated early, on the very same day he finished the exam—July 31, 1991—booking ourselves a table at a downtown restaurant called Gordon. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z We passed through a small downtown area and then pulled up to a concrete building that looked like a block-long post office. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Right next to Belhaven be the downtown and the state capital. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Finally they wandered south of downtown, into a plaza surrounded by smaller glass and brick buildings. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Or, worst of all, when she and Julie spread a rumor at school that Soojin’s parents served dog meat at their downtown Milwaukee restaurant, Park Avenue Deli. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z But he didn’t look like most jewelers—the ones downtown were quick, dark little Jew men. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I am on my way downtown to walk through the city and take photos. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The U-Haul putted up a hill, leaving downtown San Francisco behind. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Using their clout with the downtown police department, they posted three hundred mounted police in the Stock Yard to break up union gatherings. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Second Half Vondie strips the ball at center court, shoots a short pass to JB, who skips downtown zips around, then double dips it in the bowl. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z They finally found a dingy room in a building downtown, rented it for eighteen dollars a week, and immediately went out looking for work. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was Brooklyn, Sierra realized, spotting the clock tower from downtown. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Everything about the Bronx was different from downtown Manhattan, more intense and potent; even the name of the street we walked down—Gun Hill Road—suggested blood sport. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I mean, I had planned to go downtown to the library and hang out reading romance novels to put me in the mood until it was time to meet N at Perk. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z A man is downtown, he’s mugged, and he claims the mugger was a black man. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Sweet Jimmy would be back from downtown with a pocketful of Dimes. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He started by going to bookstores in Pasadena, and when he’d depleted their shelves, he took the bus into downtown Los Angeles and scoured the shelves of every bookstore he could find. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Hustling to catch the bus downtown to pick up a fresh new pair of Adidas. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Which is why, when she saw Drew heading down the sidewalk toward downtown, Ivy decided right then and there to follow him. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z But he had also been told that sometimes the people used ambulances just to go downtown. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Friday evening, Kyle and his family piled into their minivan and drove downtown to the library. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z A small crowd had already formed in front of a podium and stage outside City Hall by the time they reached downtown. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Only after he had shut the door, and the taxi was on its way back downtown to Mia’s cramped apartment, did she unfold the paper to see that astonishing figure again: $10,000. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When he was released in the morning he immediately went downtown, a walking advertisement for everyone to see, “eyes all swollen, face bruised, blood all over his shirt.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z "A man shot a gang kid downtown last night," Steve says. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Before the storm, she and her husband, who was eighty, had checked into a hotel downtown, knowing that there they would be among other residents and guests. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Just before Christmas that year, we went to the stores in downtown Little Rock, where I saw bright Christmas lights, large plants, nice furniture, and pretty pictures on the walls. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Supreme picks me up and takes me downtown for my interview with Hype. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Sitting back in the comfortable leather bucket seat, Milton Stephanides could see the downtown skyline approaching. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Only downtown were the lights large, bright, festive, and full of hope. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z If it existed at all—and she knew how the media was—it would be downtown. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z These good thoughts carry me until I’m right downtown. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z No doubt it would work much the same downtown. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He made plans for the following day: he would venture farther toward downtown, he would revisit the I-10 overpass, he would check on the state of their office and warehouse over on Dublin Street. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z We plummeted toward the docks, but the centaurs hit the asphalt with hardly a jolt and galloped off, whooping and yelling taunts at the Princess Andromeda as we raced into the streets of downtown Miami. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z From here I can see all of downtown Los Angeles, as well as many of its surrounding sectors, and the thin rim of land that separates the enormous lake from the Pacific Ocean. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “I don’t want you going downtown with Hamza to loot and steal. It’s wrong! We didn’t raise you to be a thief. And it’s worse that you’re teaching your brother.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z So now, while there’s wine, cheese, and doubleheaders downtown, poverty has taken over and crime is at an all-time high uptown. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Bull drove downtown for his morning coffee at Hobie’s Bar and Grill. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Even when they are not there, when whole city blocks downtown and acres of lawned neighborhoods in Sag Harbor cannot see them, the clicking is there. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It was when I began to be seen around town with Sophia that I really began to mature into some real status in black downtown Roxbury. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, moving through the crowds along 125th Street, I was painfully aware of other men dressed like the boys, and of girls in dark exotic-colored stockings, their costumes surreal variations of downtown styles. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, my grandmother takes my hand downtown pulls me right past the restaurants that have to let us sit wherever we want now. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Dill mirrored her gesture as they approached Good News Coffee, the town square with the gazebo, and Forrestville’s abandoned 1920s-era downtown theatre. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Magically I was on the Hoboken ferry and then ashore, far downtown with the daily panic rush of commuters leaping and running and dodging in front, obeying no signals. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Plantagenet sold the photos to a distributor downtown and gave Lefty a percentage of the take. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I also did a lot of exploring downtown. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Stale and wilted flowers, rejected downtown, blazed feverishly on a cart, like glamorous rags festering beneath a futile spray from a punctured fruit juice can. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Because while the electric lights of downtown make for some nice sightseeing, I can also see the Trial stadium looming off in the east. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Soon, we could see the little matchbox houses of the Cape Flats, the gleaming towers of downtown, and the horizontal top of Table Mountain. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Those kids simply wore the shoes when they went to clubs or cafes or walked the streets of downtown New York, and in so doing exposed other people to their fashion sense. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Kathy Link came from Highland Park, an old planned community of what are now multimillion-dollar homes four miles north of downtown Dallas. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “It was downtown by Holmes. That policeman tried to take in your boy and he took me in instead.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z After dropping their school stuff off at their apartments, grabbing snacks, and getting permission to go downtown, Emily and James found themselves riding the bus to the financial district. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z They stamped something on my test and stuffed me onto a train headed downtown. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z When I watch it on television at home, it looks like the reporters are sitting in front of a huge window that shows all of downtown. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z This day he ventured closer to downtown, passing families wading through the water, pushing laundry tubs full of their possessions. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Then 1 see the skyline of what must be downtown Guangzhou. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z As they took a taxi into downtown Anchorage, Percy told Frank and Hazel about his dreams. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Barack and I dropped into a downtown Des Moines food court over lunch and later made visits to various caucus sites to greet as many voters as we could. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “I think he’s some kind of security guard downtown. There’s only the two of them, so I don’t think they’re hard up for cash. But no one takes care of the place.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z The theater downtown is one of those really big ones that looks like a street in Paris. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z We sat there for nearly twenty minutes before Frank was given a package to take downtown. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z A few blocks of shaded streets and he was already at its heart—a pretty, quietly regulated downtown. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It’ll take forty minutes to get all the way back downtown. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Nothing mattered except figuring out a way of getting Bri downtown, and a sled seemed to make the most sense. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z For New York City’s millions of readers of the downtown papers, it was, at that time, another one of the periodic “Racial Unrest in Harlem” stories. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They would praise me for encouraging Miss Norris, and I would probably be allowed shopping privileges and movie privileges downtown, and my escape would be assured. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z From a small window high in the wall of his cell, Everett Alvarez watched the dancing light of fires burning in downtown Hanoi. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z As it crawled through downtown, the float looked something like an enormous green reptile with a sleek cedar spine and eight wavering spruce quills. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In the case of Hush Puppies, the great mystery is how those shoes went from something worn by a few fashion- forward downtown Manhattan hipsters to being sold in malls across the country. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew how to get to school and how to get downtown, and that was it. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z The mall was the final coup de grace for the downtown area, taking with it the Sears and the Penney’s and leaving behind the dirty bookstores. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z From the sidewalk it seems only a door, tucked between two downtown shops, but behind the door and up a musty-smelling staircase is a sign: ELLIOT’S ANTIQUES. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know, downtown or something. The park. Somewhere not here. I haven’t seen her in a long time.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z But my mind was on a small corner deli downtown. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Tourists never go to downtown Orlando, because there’s nothing there but a few skyscrapers owned by banks and insurance companies. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z We were a merry co-ed crew, congregating when we could in one downtown bar or another and catching up over long, lavish meals on weekends. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z You’re back where you started, in the city where you were born, only now you go to work on the forty-seventh floor in a downtown building with a wide plaza and a sculpture out front. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z My only freedom was to swipe pennies from the store drawer and walk downtown with Dee-Dee to buy romance magazines like True Love and True Romance. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In those days downtown Detroit was filled with shoppers and businessmen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z On the first Sunday in May 2011, I went to dinner with two friends at a restaurant downtown, leaving Barack and my mother in charge of the girls at home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z And, not long afterwards, he told her she had an interview at an office in downtown Baltimore, for a position in public relations. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z After a Harlem street rally, one of these downtown “leaders” and I were talking when we were approached by a Harlem hustler. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We drove to San Jose and spent an afternoon in the shops downtown. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z One day in downtown Reykjavik, he was asked for directions by some American tourists. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But the downtown location makes it hard to find people to work for her. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z He could smell lighter fluid and a charcoal fire from one of the houses near downtown. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z By 7:15, we were on the Metra, a huge double-decker commuter train headed downtown. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His mom taught French at the prestigious and expensive Kalman School downtown, and his dad was a sociology professor at Northwestern University, just north of the city. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z She would generally have me rush by taxi right back downtown to be on the 45th Street and Broadway comer at a specified time. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve been walking for hours it seems, down the hill to the downtown, where the streetcars no longer run. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The shop was located right downtown on Washington Street, the main thoroughfare through town, squarely on the route of anyone traveling from Seattle to Port Angeles or farther out onto the peninsula. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Some of them had been shopping downtown, and others had been out visiting friends, and all during supper they kept tossing back and forth these private jokes. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Buoyed by the evidence of Miele’s recovery, they would head out to lunch in downtown Manhattan. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Several times during the week, I have driven past the “Deliverance” church downtown, and the name alone exerts a scary attraction. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I would do no more running downtown, nor would I accept any program that they sent up without consulting the Harlem committee. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “But we can walk places. If we lived downtown, we’d be close to the laundromat, and you’d just have a long walk to work instead of the other way around,” I say. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Their mom was busy at her high-stress job as an events coordinator at the Imperial Marquis, a big downtown hotel. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z She wasn’t yelling but her voice was clear enough that when she raised it in the crisp autumn air I thought all of downtown could hear our trouble. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The minute the bell rang, me and Pork Chop and Ira headed downtown to where the New Dealers had set up shop. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z And I never missed my musician friends wherever they were playing, either in Harlem, downtown at the big theaters, or on 52nd Street. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We drive slowly through a sleepy downtown with a cafe, a clothing store, a dollar store, and a couple boarded-up storefronts. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The cops took Mary downtown to make some kind of statement and I went on down to the street. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z When we reach downtown, people dressed in black are parading solemnly through the streets: nuns carrying crosses; men and women holding candles, the tiny flames lighting up their faces eerily. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The local rounds, with teams from elementary schools all around the city and county, are held downtown at a hotel. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Also, I didn’t get to go downtown for the Fourth of July parade, and they hadn’t let me read the funny paper since the day Granny passed on. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z We can't go to downtown Greenville without seeing the teenagers walking into stores, sitting where brown people still aren't allowed to sit and getting carried out, their bodies limp, their faces calm. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z When she pulls the car up to the falling-apart building downtown where Fuchsia lives, she leans over. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z The Army Intelligence soldiers, those black spies in civilian clothes, hung around in Harlem with their ears open for the white man downtown. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m going downtown with my mother. You can pick the camera up tomorrow.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z The early-morning station at 125th Street had the first of the army of black workers headed downtown to sort mail, to carry bags, to push racks through the busy New York streets. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z There’s footage of raging brushfires, and riot police in downtown Los Angeles. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z No announcements precede it, no paper notices on downtown posts and billboards, no mentions or advertisements in local newspapers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Brilliant immigrant kid overcomes poverty and the Depression, can’t get a job at the stuffy downtown law firms, makes it on his own through sheer hustle and ability. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z On the drive downtown my father kept his eyes straight ahead. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They were going downtown to jobs I knew about—jobs as laborers, cleaning people, messengers. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Like sometimes we used to go downtown and steal gold chains. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The ceremony took place at a small LDS church near the main downtown area. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z By time Lee Roy and I got downtown, the caravans had reached the public well near my granddaddy’s store. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Cordelia and I are riding on the streetcar, going downtown, as we do on winter Saturdays. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Few people saw him as he rode through downtown Washington. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z When we go downtown, we go to the fabric store, where the white woman knows my grandmother from back in Anderson, asks, How's Gunnar doing and your girls in New York? Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Ninety minutes above the river, I crested a broad ridge, passed a matrix of rock-walled yak corrals, and abrupdy found myself in downtown Namche Bazaar, the social and commercial hub of Sherpa society. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Stegosaurs would haul massive carts full of collected dinopoop up there at the end of each day: you could catch whiffs of it all the way downtown. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “No, he’s going to try to eat downtown today. You know how he hates barging in on a bunch of women.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z They look to downtown San Francisco on a clear, chilly night. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z And it included white men who had come in cabs all the way up from downtown. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t even have an office downtown,” she later wrote. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z As he did his morning prayers, a helicopter broke the silence, shooting across the treetops and heading downtown. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She crosses over Georgia 400, the clogged artery that pumps hundreds of thousands of commuters into Alpharetta’s glass and brushed-metal office parks and, an hour’s drive south, into downtown Atlanta. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z When you know how to get there, downtown Wayne is only fifteen minutes away from campus. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “Plus, Rosaleen and I got in trouble downtown, and I knew if I didn’t leave, T. Ray was gonna half kill me, and I was tired of being half killed.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He finally settled on an apartment in Gardar Sverrisson’s building on Espergerdi Street, in a residential section on the east side of Reykjavik, too far to walk downtown, but accessible by two buses. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She approved of black men in blue suits who had jobs in offices downtown. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, Mom. It’s an essay. About Mr. Lemoncello’s amazing new library downtown.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z We leave downtown Los Angeles behind and travel up the winding highway in silence. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z My last two weeks downtown zipped by quickly, and when I was ready to leave it seemed that not much time had passed but I had changed a lot. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The Far Western restaurant was about nine miles from downtown Santa Maria. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z James’s wife worked for one of the hotels downtown, and the couple was planning to ride the storm out there. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Sam had told me they were going to a dance club downtown. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z She got the hint real quick that we had blown the game and went on about how crowded it was downtown. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z To get to downtown Johannesburg, one had to travel along a desolate highway that cut through an unpopulated area. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the bars at the rear of the van, we see people going about the business of their lives in downtown New York. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z He would drive the whole family to this diner downtown. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Then, how come you’re not at that Catholic school ten blocks from here? Or one of them private schools downtown?” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z But catch a subway and keep on downtown. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z About two o’clock every morning, as the downtown white nightclubs closed, Reginald and I would stand around in front of this or that Hariem after-hours place, and I’d school him to what was happening. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Though I was already home, I kept on moving east—to downtown Washington, D.C., right next to my office. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Those were delicious, colorful cakes such as you could get in Little Tokyo, by downtown Los Angeles. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “If I must go out tomorrow, I am not leaving the house so early. I felt very disoriented all the while I was downtown.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z From where we sit, we can taste the salt in the air and see the lights of downtown Los Angeles reflected on the water. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I hopped on my board, pulled my hoodie up against the raw morning and, avoiding the bloodstained sidewalk in front of the 7-Eleven, I headed downtown. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Even the brick buildings in the ramshackle little downtowns we drive past seem crisp in this light. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z “It got replaced by a fancy one downtown, but we still use this sometimes to smuggle goods back and forth.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z To be a janitor at some downtown store was to be highly respected. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Students walked across the Queen Street Bridge to downtown Hampton and converged on the lunch counters at Woolworth’s and Wornom’s, the local drug store. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z His parents gave him a fifty-dollar gift certificate to Drastic Plastic, the punk rock record store downtown. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z We crossed the street into a brighter downtown section. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Dwaine Cox, who owned a restaurant downtown, had been raised in Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “She was really his momma. A nice, pretty lady. I seen them downtown before. This policeman frightened her.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It takes fifteen minutes to get to downtown from Garden Heights. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z "I've been working downtown," I said, feeling a surge of gratitude. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z And only minutes later the two Nguyens were walking out the front doors on their way downtown. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Thousands used the car pool each day, and thousands more walked to work and school and the downtown stores. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z I said, “Let’s take the four train downtown. I know a really flavory food truck that sells arepas. We can sit in Union Square and eat ’em.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z On Clybourn Avenue in Chicago, just north of downtown, there was a strange paradise, seemingly built for the working parent, seemingly built for me: a standard, supremely American, got-it-all strip mall. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Some now worked downtown, messengers, janitors, things like that. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z After a week, I have compiled the following survey: Gail is sharing a room in a well-known downtown flophouse for $250 a week. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z This must be the simulation they used to keep indents calm during the ride downtown. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Marchers were cautioned not to pick up anything they might innocently drop while downtown; the authorities might think they were arming themselves with stones. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Y’all best know Davis, or else I’m taking you downtown and having you booked for trespassing.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z After they left the niece’s suburb, the son drove them to the address his mother had given him, which turned out to be a skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He was running an errand in downtown Durham one day not long after the trial when he spotted a city councilman walking briskly toward him on the sidewalk. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They’re her dance shoes for when she takes the free dance class at the Tango Palace downtown. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Percy stared at the steep hills of downtown Seattle. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z We sat on the number five bus, headed downtown, laughing at some girl whose mother was known to reach for anything—cable wires, extension cords, pots, pans. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z After much thought I decided on a restaurant called Le Madri, in downtown Manhattan, which is the kind of place where it takes five minutes to recite the list of daily specials. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z And just a second later, when she pulls away, her eyes are fully wet, like two of the three rivers that converge at one point in downtown Pittsburgh. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z As it was, because of our being in mourning for Granny, Mama wouldn’t let me so much as follow the army downtown, much less beat the drum. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It cut a stark contrast to the impressive municipal offices and other tall, well-manicured downtown buildings of this historic city, where, in 1877, Brigham Young delivered his final sermon. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Soon E. D. Nixon and two white activists, Clifford and Virginia Durr, hurried downtown, paid her bond, and took her home, where Fred Gray later met her and agreed to be her lawyer. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z After the pathetic back-alley drama, I headed to Burton’s pharmacy, which had been the real purpose of the trip downtown. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z How does a thirty-dollar pair of shoes go from a handful of downtown Manhattan hipsters and designers to every mall in America in the space of two years? The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z With not a lot of time to spare, Volpe asks me to rush into downtown Lincoln, find a hardware store, and purchase a caster the same size as the one that broke. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z While blacks were crowding into disease-ridden slums near downtown, whites were building mansions outside of Durham and enjoying the new luxuries bought with the tremendous profits they earned from cheap labor, black and white. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The moon lit the trees and the empty buildings as he drove through downtown. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z In the 1880s Chicago was experiencing explosive growth that propelled land values to levels no one could have imagined, especially within the downtown “Loop,” named for the turn-around loops of streetcar lines. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I imagine she’s a rich lady who shops downtown, drinks a glass of wine after work, and gets manicures on the regular. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z So we continued walking until we reached downtown. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z We never hang out downtown, and maybe it’s a good night for a change of scenery. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Bobby’s first apartment, a furnished sublet he rented for six months, had been ideal: It was downtown, had a bit of a view and a terrace, and he could walk quickly to stores and restaurants. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The downtown area alone had six thousand masonry structures: homes, temples, palaces, and granaries, even an eighteen-foot-high defensive wall. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At the same time, to simply walk along the pristine Inner Harbor or go see the Orioles in action without understanding that all of Baltimore is not downtown would be equally misleading. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Store clerks in downtown Durham waited on all white customers before helping any blacks—and then served light-skinned blacks first. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A policeman discovered a nine-year-old boy near the downtown Los Angeles tracks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z On another occasion Chris drove over to Hathaway’s house and announced they were going downtown. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I plan to build him a three-dimensional maze out of scrap plastic that I can pick up cheaply downtown. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “Not far” to Styx meant walking all the way downtown. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I’m holed up in one of Tokyo’s dozen downtowns, registered under a false name at this hotel. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Or so it seemed until we moved out of the downtown and into the townships where we would be living. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Signs, signs—keeping us out of the movie theater, all of the restaurants and hotels, some grocery stores, all of the toy stores, most car lots, and all downtown entertainment. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I had some things to do myself, but not many, and Francis had assured me that getting the money was a simple matter of going downtown and signing some papers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z This bridge has more traffic because it links downtown with the west side of Bartlett, where the high school is and the local college is and all these neighborhoods are, growing up in between. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z But I’m missing credit payments left and right, and I still have to make rent, so I catch a slave at the Parker House, a big restaurant downtown. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She says she’s not upset about what happened downtown, but I feel her pulling away from me anyway. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, early in the 1920’s music and entertainment sprang up as an industry in Harlem, supported by downtown whites who poured uptown every night. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She tossed the sheets down, moved over to the window of the room to look out at downtown San Francisco. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z So Louisa takes all the little bags home and gives them to Mom, who brings them to the pregnant-jailbird “parenting group” she runs downtown. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Through the glass, the setting sun painted all downtown in a golden glow. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z At last the cold of the car roused him; he switched on the ignition key and a moment later headed in the direction of downtown San Francisco. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z But my mother was unhappy at home, and when she was twenty-two she ran away to live in downtown Johannesburg. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Libby is coming downtown with us. We’re all going to have so much fun.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They were in downtown Helenwood, about a mile from their ruined house, at the Calliope Inn. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He drove downtown to the Public Library to read the foreign newspapers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Neither spoke until the car entered downtown traffic. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z We were playing some Christian school from downtown Birmingham, a team stocked with huge, gargantuan apemen with thick beards and a strong distaste for turning the other cheek. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The lady says I have to take a bus into Penn Station in downtown Newark. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Near downtown, a few blacks boarded the car, standing outside on the runners, holding on to the roof. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The whole of downtown Lansing passes in a moment. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Directly across the platform, the downtown train pulls in at the same time. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z He never went downtown, much less to the outskirts of the city or the shantytowns. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I got a raise, to four bucks an hour, and at the end of the summer moved out of the job-site trailer to a cheap studio apart-ment west of the downtown mall. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tokyo is too large to have a single downtown district. There are two dozen wards, each with their own characteristics. We’re entering Shibuya now.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z First, I entered a zip code in downtown Chicago, clicked “location,” and asked for a radius of twenty miles. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z And in the car on the way downtown, my dad was all distracted and really miserable-looking and I couldn’t help feeling sorry for him. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Might as well make a day of it since I’m already going downtown. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z But in the hood that manhood thing was like that card game they play on the corners downtown. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z In his alley, Toomer unpacked his flowers for the day and began his song to the few shoppers who had come downtown. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “You said you were ready to hit the street. Let’s go downtown and finish this meeting.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It seemed that the membership had fallen off after I had gone downtown. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z At recess we had the school to ourselves, and also we could roam as far as we could go—downtown, Chinatown stores, home—as long as we returned before the bell rang. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z To the south, across Vancouver Harbor, the downtown skyline gleamed red in the sunset. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Finally, we reached 101 IOI Plaza, in the heart of downtown. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Your mom’s office is all the way downtown, forty minutes away at least, and your dad’s is even farther. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Mr. Shephard sits down beside me, and I tell him how one minute we were walking around downtown, huddled close and enjoying the Thanksgiving Day parade in the freezing cold. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Maybe we would go downtown, to the museums. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew which bus number to take downtown. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z In February 1995, almost a year before the trial of Johnny and Tyrone, we went to the Juvenile Court building in downtown Chicago to find out more about the Eric Morse case. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A few investors bought up tracts of cheap land in Clarkston because of the town’s location, just outside a beltway that encircles the city and offers easy access to the airport and downtown. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The only steady business left downtown was the one-room brick post office, but it was closed when I got there. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “It’s only two stops downtown, but it’s safer than walking.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I am amused by everything she says—McDonald’s food is really plastic, downtown Detroit will be all white in ten years, the government watches us through our cell phones. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “Mrs. Walton’s taking me shopping downtown to get some things for the pageant, remember? You gotta sign the permission slip for me to go.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z As they reached downtown, they passed a police car driving in the opposite direction. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z For me, it was a throwback to the way I’d been raised—the jazz at Southside’s house, the piano recitals and Operetta Workshops put on by my great-aunt Robbie, my family’s trips to downtown museums. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The woman was going on and on about ancient Rome when it became clear to Mai that the only thing that mattered was in a courthouse in downtown Bakersfield. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The trip downtown had been far more difficult than he’d imagined, in spite of how well it had started. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Another time I had to go to the optometrist downtown. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Then he started up the path to the sidewalk and headed downtown. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z I mean ordinary working people, the kind that we otherwise almost never saw in a bar like Small’s, who, with a good enough hit, had quit their jobs working somewhere downtown for the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m taking her to the animal hospital downtown,” she said. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Daniel’s mom drives Daniel out to Axel’s house, away from the downtown, where they live, away from their busy street and their large house and all of those sisters. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Other than that, everyone was milling about like it was just another day downtown. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He moved out and took a new job with a jewelry store in downtown Chicago, H. Purdy & Co. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When summertime hit and all the tourists came, Mama would head downtown and sell them in the market for good money. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Plus, I wanted to be able to ride the merry-go-round and swim in Fair Park Pool and to try on clothes in the department stores downtown. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z We park in front of a gigantic warehouse just west of downtown. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Social note: A new film featuring my favorite female star, whose recent circus musical excess stunned and overwhelmed me, is opening shortly at one of the downtown movie palaces. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Several days later, Hale bumped into Roan at the bank in downtown Fairfax. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Weaving through rush-hour traffic on Turtle's bike, Theo trailed the bus to a seamy downtown district across the railroad tracks where Crow and Otis got off. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z "Your assignment, should you decide to remain active," Brother Jack said, reaching for his gavel, "is to lecture downtown on the Woman Question." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The “sophisticated comedy” featuring my number one female film favorite is opening at a downtown palace momentarily. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama became acquainted with a kindhearted white woman who worked at the Parisian Shoe Store in downtown Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Levittown had no Main Street or downtown, no culture, not a single thing of visual interest. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z An infection spiked up and he was rushed to the emergency room downtown where a two-inch section of his tibia and fibula was removed. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z And people downtown were passing just another day. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Moss looked out the window, watched as they crossed over the highway, saw downtown Oakland change into West Oakland, a neighborhood that still persisted in the face of too many changes to recount. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “I thought you said you had a condo downtown, but this dump was the address in the school directory,” sniffed Arielle. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z In a few minutes, they would leave the college campus and walk the few blocks down Market Street to downtown Greensboro. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “I want to drive you downtown after dinner so you can see those movies at the Orpheum and tell us what they’re about. Do you mind?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z We crossed over Fifth Av’ and headed downtown. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z In fact, we had very few books of any kind in our school library, and the library downtown—the “colored” library—didn’t have many more. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z After dropping their school stuff off at their apartments, grabbing snacks, and getting permission to go downtown, Emily and James found themselves riding the bus to the financial district. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z This was just what he told himself so he could keep walking in the direction of the downtown train. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Picket lines of black high school and college students marched in front of downtown movie theaters for several years. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But instead of learning what the future held, I'd been dragged to downtown San Jose so my parents could fill out paperwork with our immigration lawyer. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The downtown train was crowded, mostly with kids from Roosevelt High. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z He got his law degree and set up a practice on Court Street in downtown Brooklyn. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z On days when school got out early or when homework was light, we flocked from Whitney Young to downtown Chicago, landing in the eight-story mall at Water Tower Place. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z People from downtown stop in for a drink. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Tess laughs, but her eyes stay focused on the downtown lights. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The streets had become so congested that the city issued an emergency decree to suspend the trolley service until after the parade because there was no room for the passengers to disembark downtown. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z As we drove downtown toward the city, I heaved a big sigh. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Like mushrooms in damp leaves, they sprouted every night by a dozen roadsides—downtown, up in the canyon, out on the north-south highway. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The next time I ran into Freddie I was downtown one night a few weeks later. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z To my mind she didn’t need a ride any more than if she was going downtown, which she did every day, and besides, she was leaving Campbell Junior with Mama and Queenie. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z We just couldn't afford the clothing from the downtown stores. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “The pleasure is all mine, Toomer. I’ve seen you downtown many times and I always planned to stop and chat but something always interfered.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Four days a week she leaves the house at five-thirty in the morning, takes a bus to a train that takes her to downtown Boston. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Joey and Rock and I enjoyed a silent ride to the auditorium downtown. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Wandering into a used bookstore in downtown Los Angeles, Bobby stumbled on a dusty old book called The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Would he pull me into an alley when I was downtown? Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Usually she was afraid to go into downtown establishments, where only white people were, but today she did not care. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z It isn’t until they reach downtown, just before the exit ramp to the highway, that Axel spots a few crows gathered on a phone wire. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z His two dimes and a penny couldn’t carry him far, but somehow he begged and borrowed enough money to open a little bicycle-repair shop on Van Ness Avenue downtown. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Even with the big music festival going on downtown?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z They were sailing through a large bay, making their way toward a cluster of downtown buildings. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z As we drove past the packing plant and into downtown Tangerine, Henry D. started to tell me about last year’s game with Lake Windsor. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z By choice I do not pray before eating lunch in a downtown restaurant. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Out in the city, Nok wound her way from the quiet neighborhood of the gym into the gritty heart of downtown. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z She worked as a speech therapist for children, mostly freelancing in the public schools and then part-time at a speech and hearing clinic downtown. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s something about that tunnel that leads to downtown. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z He took the coffee for the train, on the walk back ruminating about the nature of work in downtown Chicago. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The bell rings before I can ask Lorena to go downtown with me after school. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z They’d pick them up from the welfare center downtown and drop them off at the Store. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Being hauled downtown, questioned, released with no charges pending. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z They must have loaded up all the drug dealers to take downtown. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z So I close my eyes, and suddenly I’m at the summer carnival in downtown Newark. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z When I turn my attention back to the window, I see the part of downtown that sits inside Batalla. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “I wrote something about oceans and the balance of nature— I don’t honestly remember what I said—but I won first prize: a trip for six to the new downtown aquarium. All expenses paid. Stupendous!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z She wants to build a library in downtown Baltimore or open a women’s hospital in India or run a search-and-rescue team that would rush to victims of tsunamis. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z These were rules aimed at something obvious—the great danger that haunted every visit to Shake & Bake, every bus ride downtown. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Located minutes from downtown San Francisco, a baseball’s throw from where the San Francisco Giants play, it is a gleaming example of a new dedication to understanding the workings of the human brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In the same two-year period, fifteen hundred miles away, near Buffalo, New York, another man — a kind of Boss Man clone — worked the distressed downtown streets of Jamestown. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandma said it was meant to keep downtown Fry pretty, so people didn’t have to look at just buildings and businesses all the time. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The doors were closed to them at the big downtown law firms. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Our next game was on Saturday but we all had to go to school first and then take a school bus downtown to Trinity. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z A sixteen-legged cedar turtle, more than sixty feet long, they crossed Mercer Street and headed south on Westlake, plunging into downtown traffic. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z An increasing number of Harlem leaders declared that the principal reason for this was the downtown white press media, sensationalizing what was going on in a calm, dignified community. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But she doesn’t know which subway train to take to get downtown. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z On the next play I switch it up and launch a three from downtown. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z “Yes, yes. Boys under twelve stay across the street, in a different camp, but the older boys will go downtown, to the Cuban Home for Boys.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z On his payday we drove downtown to Division Street and brought presents for my sisters, and he actually kidded around with Mama. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z My friends were now “downtown,” busy, as they put it, “fighting the man.” The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z On October 22 gale winds ripped display signs from buildings downtown, tossed houseboats around on Lake Union, and necessitated the rescue of thirty-three people from various storm-tossed pleasure craft on Puget Sound. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was one in the morning and hardly anything stirred in those wide downtown streets. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t want you two monkeying around downtown. I’m cuttin’ up a watermelon, and we can have Ritz and cheddar for lunch.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z They hover about the downtown streets of Flushing, spying out usable souls. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Though better equipped than the homes closer to downtown, many of these residences had few windows, so the rooms were dark and the air was stale. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z When she realized she was going to have to go downtown to the courthouse, Anthony excused herself and went upstairs to change clothes, leaving the flummoxed marshal waiting in the parlor. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Silence on the bus, and silence walking three blocks from the bus to the downtown office building. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z I can visit the World Travel Arena downtown, where Deckers and guests can experience the cultures and environments of different countries and cities. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z There is nothing left to do, the friend says, but to risk the cops, go downtown and beg. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The Monroe County courthouse is situated in the heart of downtown Monroeville. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z When I get home, Momma is waiting at the door to take me downtown to buy new clothes. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z We couldn’t risk asking a neighbor’s help, so even though I didn’t have a license, I had to drive Link’s car downtown. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl lived in a run-down block of flats downtown. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z We didn’t get many yellow cabs coming to the street, because downtown cabs didn’t stop for black people and you didn’t need to use a cab when the A train came directly to Harlem. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Those laws said whites and blacks should be separated in all public places: drinking fountains, parks, trains, buses, downtown food counters, and public schools. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Probably a big fire downtown. I heard a lot of sirens.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z In a gutter in downtown Manhattan, half-buried under a piece of sheet metal, a lost cell phone buzzed to life. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z I hurry toward the Parker House, hoping I can get downtown and into the kitchen before they notice me missing and penalize me for being late. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She went home to her parents; he moved into the Duquesne Hotel in downtown Pittsburgh. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “All right, but don’t blame me if . . .” Macon pulled smoothly into the left fork of the road that led through downtown and into a residential area. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Northwest of downtown, in the old Scandinavian neighborhood of Ballard, tugboats belching plumes of black smoke nosed long rafts of logs into the locks that would raise them to the level of Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z When we got to the downtown stretch of Tangerine, everybody in the row started honking horns and flashing lights. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Private security guards warned business owners of the danger to their property, urging them to get downtown to their stores and offices as quickly as possible, but the mob was not stopped until ten a.m. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I didn’t know where we were going, but we sure as hell weren’t staying downtown. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z “How do you like the music I picked for our ride downtown?” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Hannah’s parents were on the news every night, warning that if the huge shopping center went up, it would put the downtown stores out of business. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z He kept it in the company room at our house, which was between the depot and downtown, and came by for a snort every morning on his way to work. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She was downtown, shopping; she was standing on the street talking to your grandmother when he rode past. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z Before Maxine leaves, she talks to Mom about taking me to a bookstore downtown. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “This isn’t the Third World,” De Roos said on the news, standing in the heart of downtown Flushing. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he drives into downtown, toward Broadway Street, where we reach a wide, brightly lit tall building that’s just for cars. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z It’s dark by the time I stop in downtown New Harmony, with its brightly painted buildings, and ask everyone I can find about where the houses have gone. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Soon downtown vanished and I didn’t know where I was. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z If I didn’t have money to get downtown, I would often climb a tree in the park. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z In downtown Manhattan, black cars line up outside Goldman Sachs’s headquarters every weeknight around nine. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z As a teenager, I didn’t realize the gravity of what had happened at the childrens march in downtown Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z All the taxies were hired, all going downtown. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He scooped Chester into the matchbox, shouted “Goodbye, Mr. Smedley,” over his shoulder, and headed for the stairway leading to the downtown subway trains. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z One afternoon, I invited her to go downtown with me after school. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He and Geyer checked with other hotels to find out who had run the Circle House, and learned from its former clerk that the registration records were in the possession of a downtown attorney. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z This morning, Wednesday, September 11, they had to be downtown by eight o’clock. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z It was just about time for me to go and pick up Jean Parks, to go downtown to see Billie at the Onyx Club. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A pilot for South Vietnam bombed the presidential palace downtown that afternoon. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The Communications Corporation had a skyscraper office overlooking the East River in downtown New York. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We wandered through downtown for about half an hour, though I wasn’t sure what Annabeth was looking for. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z And best of all, it’s real, just a few blocks from the Plaza de Ponchos in downtown Otavalo. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there were the mass demonstrations at Howard Johnson’s and downtown. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The following Tuesday, as he drove downtown to the bus station to pick up some game films of the team’s final opponent, the San Angelo Central Bobcats, he was still grappling with the loss. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Not much different from many of the homes in downtown Ravenskill. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Occasionally a car sputtered up the hill from downtown and detoured around the sleeping dogs before parking in front of Peerless Painless Dentist, its driver getting out and walking nervously into the office. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z While passing through downtown, I recognized The Spirit of Detroit, the Marshall Fredericks statue that stood in front of the City-County Building. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He still had no idea how he could get Bri from Eighty- eighth Street downtown. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “Andrew and I need to head back downtown. Sierra? Can you come with us?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Every post office in Baltimore was closed for the holiday except the main branch downtown. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I am sitting in a downtown cafe, after, thinking. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Gerald no longer felt uncomfortable around them, even though he lived in an apartment building downtown that had a broken elevator, graffiti on the walls, and very little grass anywhere. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z To support her daughters, she took in laundry and later found a job as a cleaning woman at Wanamaker’s Department Store downtown. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z We’ll be so close to downtown Athens, or maybe there will be stuff on campus. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z The U-Haul putted up a hill, leaving downtown San Francisco behind. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z And so I booked us an appointment with a downtown psychologist who came recommended by a friend, and Barack and I went to see him a handful of times. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z A downtown department store came to her rescue. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The fountain in downtown Kinshasa, which I’d once thought of as the height of glamour, now looked like a bowl of broth. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Hot 105 is in one of the skyscrapers downtown. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z "Sure, guys, I'm down"—he paused, then smiled and continued—"like the ground, from here to downtown." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Located nineteen miles southwest of downtown Los Angeles, it has a fine stretch of beach on Santa Monica Bay, where Shin sometimes went for walks. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The local landmark was located in the middle of the city, not far from her home downtown. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Ty'ree had left up the flowered curtains Mama'd bought downtown, and for some reason this was sadder than anything to me. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z In a nice suit, I felt pretty good about myself and headed out past the station toward downtown. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The man had asked C.P. to provide additional security downtown and the Klansman was only too happy to oblige. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But the nearer we drew to downtown, the more I felt that familiar, frightening quiver like Jell-O in my stomach. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z We’d been scouting for new buildings for me to sketch around the Meatpacking District downtown. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Janis was happy and hard-driving, a telecommunications analyst who worked downtown and was, like everyone else, completely smitten with my dad. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Saying “downtown” keeps people out of your business. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I found a small building near downtown Montgomery, and in the summer of 1989 we signed a lease. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He drove downtown in the old Franklin his father had left behind and parked on Washington Street, where he sat on the hood and played his banjo and sang, hoping for spare change. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Mama and I would occasionally go downtown to Macy’s and Gimbel’s or to the many stores along 14th Street, then a big shopping area. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z On Fridays, back in Chicago, we had a standing date night, usually meeting downtown at a restaurant called Zinfandel after we’d both finished up work. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z There’s lights strung across the street downtown, and Santa Clauses hanging from the lamp posts. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z So, I'd tried checking out the white ladies' bathroom in a downtown department store several months before. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z At the end of June, Mrs. Moss handed Luke and me two of our best outfits from the shed and told us that we were going downtown. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The first stars flickered on like the lights over the movie marquee downtown. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Kim who must have somehow managed to cajole her mother into driving downtown. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s my birthday party at this laser tag place downtown. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “It’s just that Airs. Brolin said she’d be displaying all our projects in the main library downtown. I want it to be really good. Plus, it’s a big deal to everyone in town.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z I have come downtown for our annual lunch date. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Enrique fears that he will become like the hundreds of glue- sniffing children he sees downtown. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z On West Harrison Street in Chicago, two miles west of the city’s downtown, there is an ornate, block-long building designed and built in the early part of the last century. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z One evening, the men, who were joined by Jan Timman from Holland, the number three-ranked chess player in the world, went off to what Broodhaers described as a “raunchy” nightclub in downtown Brussels. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z San Francisco’s Sixty-Niners, Bob Presto’s club: it stood in North Beach, within view of the skyscrapers downtown. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She was a waitress in an exclusive restaurant downtown. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She had just got hired at a new job doing store security downtown. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I found that most downtown audiences seemed to expect some unnamed something whenever I appeared. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Few, meanwhile, had ever been downtown to see the lakefront or visit Navy Pier. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z By the time Piper sent her Iris-message warning them about the Roman attack, they were already halfway back to the ship, having been chased through downtown Charleston by a pack of angry dead Confederates. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z His daughter Barbara was about to get married, and she and his wife had gone downtown to pick out patterns for her crystal and silverware. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Two hundred marchers headed downtown, through streets lined by glowering law enforcement officers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “So these new Rose buildings are models of all them buildings you two saw downtown?” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z |
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