Word: hometown
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...matter of fact, nobody would know that eight months had passed since the 1965 season ended, the way the boys were cracking helmets last week. It was championship all over again at San Diego, where the hometown Chargers played the Buffalo Bills-the same team that demolished them 23-0 for the A.F.L. title last year. The Chargers were bent on revenge, and they got it, as Flanker Lance Alworth caught a pass for one touchdown, set up another with a crushing block, and San Diego...
...Tropical Fish Hobbyist Herbert Axelrod [July 29], TIME says "he delights in swimming in piranha-infested rivers just to prove that piranhas are not man-eaters." This is not in accord with my childhood memories of placing my hand against the glass wall of the piranha tank in the hometown aquarium for the thrill of watching these aggressive Lilliputians try to attack the hand...
...letters to Faulkner's hometown newspaper, The Oxford Eagle, are set in the style of his later novels and make pleasurable reading. A letter about his dog, Pete, killed by a reckless driver, contains the kind of compassion we have come to expect from Faulkner...
...letters to Faulkner's hometown newspaper, The Oxford Eagle, are set in the style of his later novels and make pleasurable reading. A letter about his dog, Pete, killed by a reckless driver, contains the kind of compassion we have come to expect from Faulkner...
Johnson regards the change-over as a concession to thrift and good bookkeeping. Bankers, college administrators, and students with NDEA loans--the people most concerned with a switch in the procedure--are not as dispassionate. Forcing a student to obtain a loan from a hometown firm, they say, will create problems never encountered when all he had to do was walk to his college's financial aid office and sign a single form...