Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...approach to the space program and her own sense of fate. She once told an interviewer that she wasn't concerned about the inherent--until now, only threatened--danger of spacefaring. Instead, she said, she felt a greater risk each time she crossed a particularly notorious intersection in her hometown of Concord, N.H. She joked about it, but clearly couldn't have known the irony of her words. For if she had died in a car accident in Concord, instead of in the worst disaster in 25 years of manned spaceflight, most of us probably wouldn't have cared less...
John Devin, Grant Blair's backup in the Harvard net, echoes the hometown sentiment. Devin was in net the last time the Crimson met the Eagles in the Beanpot--the consolation game of last year's tournament...
...Eagles don't have an advantage stemming from their hometown roots, then doesn't their size give them an edge on the smaller ice surface of the Garden...
...bargained for when Bruce Springsteen and members of his E Street Band made a surprise appearance at the Stone Pony, the Asbury Park club where the Boss played in early days. "Remember what we're doing this for," Springsteen told the stunned audience of 500, before breaking into My Hometown, a song about a textile-plant closing in Freehold. Said Springsteen, who was born there and lives in nearby Rumson: "The marriage between a company and a community is a special thing. The 3M company: it's their money and it's their plant, but it's the 3M workers...
...Eatonton, Ga., and wanted to see a movie at the Pex theater, Alice Walker had to sit in the balcony reserved for blacks. But last week, dear God, Walker, 41, was triumphantly downstairs. The Pex literally put out the red carpet for the Pulitzer prizewinning writer, who used her hometown as the inspiration for her best-selling novel The Color Purple. Much of Eatonton (pop. 4,800) turned out for a benefit screening of the film based on her book. "I think of this movie as a gift to you," Walker told the audience of friends and family...