Word: cantone
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...Canton, Miss., couple roadtripped to this weekend’s Harvard-Yale Game—on a whim. Tom Butchart, who orders college football jerseys from time to time, purchased a Harvard one recently. When his wife, Diane, saw her husband’s shirt, she made fun of him “trying to be intelligent.” So Diane aligned herself with Yale and together they decided to venture North for the game. Their trip has brought them local fame and for Diane, a ring. When Diane saw a ring she liked at a Charles Street antique...
...will likely plunge in the polls instead. Harvard extended its season-opening winning streak to three with a convincing 2-0 win over Clarkson (3-5-1, 1-4-1) on Friday night, but ran into trouble against old nemesis St. Lawrence at Appleton Arena in Canton, N.Y., the next day. “They’re definitely the best team we’ve played so far,” freshman defender Cori Bassett said. “They have a really good core of players. Hopefully next time we’ll get them...
...their part, the immigration service is trying to strike fear into contractors that serve as a buffer between workers and large companies. In April, the immigration service brought indictments against two temporary-labor companies in Canton, Ohio, a home-builder in Kentucky, and two other Kentucky companies, one of which supplied workers to Holiday Inn and other hotels...
...They separate for ten months at a time and then meet again and so they have stories to tell; they become natural narrators, sitting together under a tree, smelling of dirt and sunscreen, comparing what being 8 or 12 or 16 means in Canton, or Fox Chapel, or Bronxville. But then in another violation of the school-year space-time continuum, my rising sixth grader can have as her best summer friend the neighbor across the street, who hikes and kayaks and became a grandmother this year. The sixth graders don't play with the seventh graders at school...
During a Hong Kong summer in the late 1960s, there are reports of bombs exploding in the streets, rumors of dead bodies floating "down the Pearl River, from the fighting in Canton," and the buzz of an increasing onslaught from the "Red" East: "Little Red Books of Mao Zedong's edicts wave in the air. Red bursts of firecrackers. Red drums. Red Guards." In this summer in the city Alice Greenway sets her slim and lyrical debut novel, White Ghost Girls. Greenway's book depicts the coming-of-age of two American girls, Kate and Frankie. Amidst the faint rumblings...