Word: hometowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Keane, who began sailing in his hometown of Cohasset, Mass. at the age of eight, feels that his greatest asset lies in the fact that he is a "mental sailor...
...first novel, Appointment in Samarra, described sexual relations among the people of "Gibbsville"--which was modelled after the author's hometown of Pottsville, Pa.--so explicitly for the time that people "who I knew very slightly and who were certainly never in my mind as characters, threatened to sue me for defamation of character," O'Hara later wrote...
...heart attack suffered as his former team lost the Super Bowl; in Philadelphia. Appointed to a 15-year term as a general manager and head coach by former Eagles Owner Jerry Wolman, Kuharich, who had previously coached the Chicago Cardinals, Washington Redskins and Notre Dame, infuriated fans by trading hometown favorites and compiling a five-year record of 28-41-1. He was replaced when Wolman sold the team...
Those who do refuse should publicly explain their reasons, to Congressmen, to their friends and parents, to hometown newspapers, and to local registration boards. That outcry may serve the most legitimate function of refusal to register--forcing other Americans to consider America's place in the world and freedom's place in America. Any protest movement produces social upheaval, which always carries painful cost. But a climate of resistance to one abuse of our society may bring to the surface needed discussion of other problems. A mass display of civil disobedience would offer America much hope amidst the turmoil...
...Dante Della Terza, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, the earthquake which struck southern Italy nine days ago has been a personal tragedy. The quake leveled his hometown of Sant Angelo dei Lombardi, killing one-fourth of the town's inhabitants...