Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FOXBORO, MASS--It's first and goal for the New England Patriots, and the football is at the Dolphins' one-yd. line. Hometown hero/wonderboy and Patriots' quarterback Doug Flutie has just led his team on an extraordinary 79-yd. drive with less than one minute left in the first half of Sunday's NFL Eastern Division showdown at Sullivan Stadium...
...CHARLES: JUST BETWEEN US (CBS). Sublime. When Charles sings Stranger in My Own Hometown, there doesn't seem to be a lonely corner his voice can't reach...
...teenager, and his older brother's accomplishments became a terrible burden. Yet when life crowded him, as it did so often, Billy, intelligent, sensitive, shy and insecure, would hide behind the mask of the clown. Last week Billy was buried in the red Georgia earth near Plains, his beloved hometown. His friends and family -- including brother Jimmy, the former President -- were there. They knew, if the rest of the world did not, what they had lost...
...discovered that they felt their words were not wrong or harmful. "I'm not prejudiced," the West Virginian explained. "I just don't like them." The two men continued talking throughout Jackson's speech, preaching their racial philosophy and explaining that if my local pub were in their hometown, Blacks wouldn't be permitted to enter. They claimed their local pubs admit Blacks only through the back door...
...Bobby's a good kid too. They're both hometown guys," said Donna Petraglin, adding that Travaglini lives across the street from her parents. Asked whether her parents are friends with the challenger, she said "Everybody...