Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Grainne O'Callahan, a waitress, praises the baras similar to the pubs of her hometown of Galway...
...Brian W. Smith '02 said he would love to use the Web to transfer funds easily to his hometown bank in Oklahoma...
This is not the type of place where this happens," city council president George Carlton told a reporter, after the horror became public in his hometown, Sylacauga, Ala. He echoed what was said in Jasper, Texas, a year ago. Few people then had ever heard of Jasper. A week ago, even fewer could have pointed out Sylacauga on a map. A tiny city of 13,000, halfway between Birmingham and Montgomery, Sylacauga was known for its white marble quarries, textile mills and ice-cream factory. But last week Sylacauga, like Jasper, became a chapter in the recent history of hatred...
Children's stories are often tales of desperate travels through far-off lands. In Iranian films, the terrain is typically the child's own hometown. And the potential tragedy can be as simple as being left alone at school, as in Panahi's deliciously devious The Mirror. Or, as in Children of Heaven, the loss of your sister's shoes...
Philip Sprague and his wife Esther Sparks found the place a few years ago, while enduring a miserable Midwestern winter, after Sprague read that author John Grisham considered his hometown of Oxford a paradise on earth. "As soon as the ice-storm was over, I got in my car and drove south to Oxford and checked into a Holiday Inn," Philip says. "The moment I got into town, I said, 'Oh, my God. This is a movie...