Word: hometown
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...diaries began as a dare. As a 17-year-old high school sophomore in his hometown of Kewanee, Illinois, Ellis tried to enliven a cold, dull winter by proposing a contest to see which student could keep a diary the longest. One friend stopped after two weeks, another after three months. Ellis, like the Energizer Bunny, kept on going. And going...
...general consensus that colored units are inferior to the performance of white troops, except for service duties,'' according to a 1942 memo to General Dwight D. Eisenhower. And the idea of blacks flying planes was preposterous to many white officers. Williams, who had learned to fly in his hometown of Ottumwa, Iowa, before the war, recalls applying for military service when he was 20 and being told by the white recruiter, "The Air Corps is not taking niggers...
Much of this trouble, as the Unabomber argues, stems from technology. Suburbs are largely products of the automobile. (In the forthcoming book The Lost City, Alan Ehrenhalt notes the irony of Henry Ford, in his 60s, building a replica of his hometown--gravel roads, gas lamps--to recapture the "saner and sweeter idea of life" he had helped destroy.) And in a thousand little ways--from the telephone to the refrigerator to ready-made microwavable meals-technology has eroded the bonds of neighborly interdependence. Among the Aranda Aborigines of Australia, the anthropologist George Peter Murdock noted early this century...
...many moons ago, Tom Arnold's Hollywood career was so deep in the toilet you could hear the water running in his hometown of Ottumwa, Iowa. It was bad enough that Roseanne, his soon-to-be ex, had fired him as executive producer of her eponymous ABC-TV hit series. Then, after she and he had grabbed five years of scandal-sheet headlines as a white-trash version of Taylor and Burton, Roseanne had filed for divorce, badmouthing Arnold as a no-talent wife beater, a charge he denied. And thanks to the successive failure of two dud TV sitcoms...
...What started out as a simple idea borne out of my frustration with the violence that was destroying my hometown has now grown into a viable program with great potential," Chiang said...