Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Freehold, N.J., Mayor Michael Wilson proposed erecting a statue of hometown hero BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN. But plans for the memorial were scrapped last week when the cost became prohibitive. Mayor Wilson revealed that public support was only tepid to begin with...
...birthday, SHIRLEY JONES' husband Marty Ingels wanted to give his wife a statue of herself in her hometown of Smithton, Pa. However, Ingels and the town elders could not agree on a suitable location. "What started out to be a lovely, joyous thing has become Vietnam, Hiroshima," said Ingels...
Hasek is also stubborn. In 1989, playing for Czech's army team, he refused to skate during a key game against his hometown's team. In Buffalo he's already legend enough that the Marine Midland Arena, where the Sabres skate, is flanked by two gargoyle goalies splayed apart in a way that only the double-jointed Hasek can manage. Still, he was booed at the beginning of last year because he schemed to dump the team's popular coach. Last May he sat in his Jeep making calls as 1,500 fans--many of them children...
DIED. AL HIRT, 76, corpulent pop and jazz trumpeter also known as "Jumbo" and "the Round Mound of Sound"; of liver disease; in New Orleans. The ever affable Hirt was an institution in his hometown of New Orleans, where he ran a Bourbon Street club and had a stake in football's Saints. During a five-decade career, he toured with Big Bands led by Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey, recorded more than 50 albums and won a Grammy. He continued to play local clubs until the last weeks of his life...
...played a big part in making such wild accusations credible with Serbs. Nothing lays the groundwork for propaganda like seeing parts of your hometown blown away. NATO has bombed targets ranging from bridges to office blocks in its attempt to weaken the Serbian war machine and break Milosevic's resistance. But with "collateral damage" now including Serbian and ethnic Albanian civilians alike, the strikes have also provided all the material that Milosevic's minions need to win over even die-hard skeptics. NATO, the propaganda insists, simply wants to kill Serbs at any cost. "Most people--myself included--see this...