Word: hometown
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Tsosie, part Navajo, part Mojave, comes from Colorado River Reservation, Arizona. He is one of the two non-urban residents of his group here. He left his hometown to attend a private school in Chicago, while he supported himself. A Columbia recruiter convinced him to apply to Eastern colleges. He had never heard of Harvard before. In his small town of Parker, "counselors discourage you from applying to college," he says, "and Anglos tell you you're stupid." He adds that the Klu Klux Klan counts 200 members in his town. Now, whites at home hate him even more, because...
...watched Indira Gandhi one afternoon, as she slowly drove down to one of the military units in my hometown in South India. People lined the streets and waved as always. Traffic came to a standstill as the official convoy went by. In the hot Indian sunshine, she seemed tireless and determined, her strong features and white-streaked hair lent her an air of invincibility. To me, she embodied the strength of India, its achievements, its aspirations and its very spirit. For many Indians, there is today a personal sense of loss. Indira was not always one of the world...
...Harvard crowd supported Dineen in the Sunday final against Stafford. Her brother John is Harvard's assistant coach and brother Peter is captain of Harvard's men's squash team. Yet the hometown cheers weren't enough as Stafford squeaked by Dineen...
Harvard came out swinging in the second half. Within three minutes the hometown stickwomen put together perhaps their most serious threat of the afternoon, but freshman Kate Felsen couldn't convert a scoring opportunity in front of an open...
...lifelong citizen of Dallas and as a Mexican-American, I feel I must respond to the distorted attack leveled upon my hometown by your "Unconventional Warfare" column of September 19. In his vehement efforts to criticize the Reagan Administration and the Republican Party, Mark Feinberg has slandered the city of Dallas and its residents, without reason or evidence...