Word: hometown
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Both of them grew up in the middle-class, predominantly white suburbs that stretch across Northern California. Smith's hometown, according to Ed Miao, a friend from high school, "wasn't exactly poetically inspiring," Fairfield is the kind of place John Hughes made movies about--a commuter town halfway between Sacramento and San Francisco where the only thing for teenagers to do was to hang out at the local mall. "People had big sprayed hairdos," says Miao...
...questions and explanation-making might have been cut short, however, if there had been wider dissemination of some basic facts about Wasinger's life and family in his hometown of Manhattan, Kansas...
...have spent the past four years acting as a renegade Crimson Key guide my hometown, dragging friends and strangers from one neighborhood to the next, spouting historical facts and personal anecdotes the whole way. If half of Harvard hasn't heared at least one story about one of my crazy high school priests, or one monstrous tale from Castle Island, then I've failed...
After I clean up my accent and get used to a city where people don't say "wicked" anymore, where they laugh when I say "laugh", I'll finally make that break, putting my hometown in perspective and ready to choose it again, maybe, a couple years down the road...
These upheavals were slow to arrive for the 350 colored people in Gates' hometown of Piedmont, nestled in a sleepy hollow between the Allegheny Mountains and the Potomac River Valley. At first folks simply watched the speeches and marches on television. When the effects of the civil rights movement finally did come to the town in the 1960s, the impact was ambiguous. Blacks welcomed expanded job opportunities and an end to humiliating reminders of where -- quite literally -- they stood: they were now allowed to sit down in white restaurants. But integration also meant that the nurturing institutions blacks had created...