Word: hometown
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...smoked marijuana and split a dozen beers. Violent fantasies were nothing new to either of them. Vance had choked his mother on one occasion and hit her with a hammer on another; Belknap had stolen money and a van and exposed himself to women; both talked of leaving their hometown of Sparks, Nev. (pop. 41,000), to become mercenaries. This time, however, the youths hit a new low. They grabbed a shotgun and hurried to a nearby church playground, where Belknap tucked the barrels under his chin and blew his head away. Vance imitated his friend but survived, literally defaced...
Genscher's roots help explain his passion for unification. Born in Halle in 1927, Genscher was drafted into Hitler's military at age 15 and manned the radar for antiaircraft guns; after the war his hometown became a part of East Germany, and in 1952 he fled to West Germany. Since the early 1970s, when travel restrictions between East and West Germany were eased, he has regularly made visits to Halle, keeping in touch with friends and family as well as with the mood in the East...
...avoided facing any criminal charges over his 1988 self-directed sex video co-starring an Atlanta teenager by agreeing to spend 20 hours speaking to inmates in his hometown of Dayton. On a trip there last September, he met with Rose...
Jennings, like Hitchcock and the best of Spielberg's heroes, is an ordinary man driven to heroism only because of unusual circumstances. He is the reluctant hero seeking to protect his family and his newly adopted hometown, motivations which make the flimsly premises supporting this summer's blockbusters seem far-fetched and ludicrous in comparison. Rather than a series of explosions, shatterings of plate glass, or sickening gore, Arachnophobia uses the little things one can't take for granted today, believable characters and good old-fashioned fear, to keep your attention...
...remains a village. Hamad was two hours into an interview with a family in the West Bank before he realized that he was related by marriage to one of its members. While he was interviewing students in Jordan, a teacher overheard that he lived in Bethlehem, the man's hometown. "And what is the news of Jamil Hamad?" asked the teacher. Hamad laughed and replied, "I am Jamil Hamad." The two had not seen each other in 20 years...