Word: home-town
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Helmut faces home-town woes...
...second semester he married his home-town sweetheart, Kim Moses, and brought her from Monongahela to Notre Dame. She worked in the sports-information office. After the games he would keep Kim company as she typed the team's statistics. Joe was grateful to have an ally from home in residence, but the marriage ended in divorce after three years. He says simply: "We were too young...
...homecoming day at Virginia's Hampden-Sydney College, and the playing field, ironically called Death Valley, is alive with the old-fashioned spirit of amateur competition. No TV cameras or pro scouts here. Sprawling on the sidelines, students and alumni sip beer, bloodies and bourbon as the home-town Tigers are tamed 7-6 by the Generals from Washington and Lee. It seems a perfect postcard of an all-American scene. But look a little closer. A few details are amiss. The pep band in the stands has only male members. There is not a curvy cheerleader in sight...
Still, the B.S.O.'s claims to fame are strong. Like the greatest symphonic organizations, it has a noble tradition and a distinctive sound. Its home-town appeal extends from the white-haired ladies who sip cranberry juice at intermission of the Friday afternoon concerts to the young physicists and computer scientists who fill the hall on Saturday evening. Isaac Stern, in a birthday greeting, was right when he called it "a great Boston tradition that continues to enrich our nation...
...lawyer in his home-town of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, Hoffman described the disastrous first Olympic heat, "In my four years at Harvard, never had any equipment broken or had anyone gotten sick during a race. Now our stroke almost collapsed, two riggers broke half-way through and we finished third...