Word: home-town
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...politicians found time to mix with the voters. The Institute obligingly sponsored a series of receptions Wednesday night where the freshmen legislators came to meet students from their home districts, talk home-town politics, and press the flesh of all those young voters who could be a big help in the next election...
...basketball is almost always respectable. After one disastrous season, Michael is breaking out his shovel, but his burial plans are just a little early. Judging a very young and inexperienced team on the basis of its first four games is absurd, and any objective reporter, not to mention a home-town one, would not make such a mistake...
...Government spending: "My home-town newspaper, the Russell Record, once reported on a conscientious Congressman who kept having a recurrent nightmare in which he dreams that all the money he is spending...
Another British couple, Brother and Sister Runners Ian (5,000 meters) and Mary (1,500 meters) Stewart of Birmingham, has worked as hard as Anne and Mark. Home-town boosters raised money so that Ian, a factory employee at Birmingham Small Arms Co., and Mary, a clerk at the telephone office, could devote last month to high-altitude training at Colorado Springs, Colo...
...home-town Hornets have just blanked the circuit-leading Mudhens, and the "writers"-as athletes tend to call reporters-are crowded into the Hornet locker room. There in the whirlpool bath is Ace Hurler Ace Hurley, naked as a slow curve, telling a cub reporter how he fanned the last three enemy swatters. She is scribbling fast...