Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cowen likes the home-town crowd and the hometown cooking. But now he'd like some wins, home or away, more than anything else...
...this game, I REALLY do think Harvard will win. Unlike some of the other Crimson contests this fall, this is not a hometown pick. The Harvard defense will stop the Penn wishbone, and the Quakers, who have beaten Brown and Princeton and are now feeling their oats, will be pushed out of the Ivy picture. Harvard 20, Penn 8 (just like last year), and if I'm wrong again, well, then I'll be wrong again...
...best parts of the book deal with William's effort to escape his origins--from his father nurturing his ambition to his own snobbery and self-imposed discipline. Sillitoe describes his hometown...
They subscribed to The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald-American (for the murders), The New York Post, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Berkely, Kentucky Hilltop-Mountain-Eagle, which was Bell's hometown newspaper and came once a week. Every day the newspapers stacked up outside their door, and for the first three weeks they lived in Winthrop House, to these were added yesterday's Times, Globe, etc., because their entry mates thought the box they put outside their door for the delivery boys to drop the papers into was some sort...
Sally Roberts, Radcliffe's first singles player, worked her way through two rounds, but in the quarter-finals she met a hometown rival, Debbie Cambell. "I played against her for six years at home," Roberts said, "and never got more than three games from...