Word: hometown
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Miniature jockocracies that marginalize womenand non-athletes are everywhere in America. Katzsays his hometown, Swampscott, is the epitome ofjockocracy...
Indeed, it is these ironies that seem clearest as the Texas entrepreneur's quixotic bid for the White House ends--for better or worse. Ironies that run thicker than Perot's twangy Texas accent, thicker than the tumbleweeds that drift outside his hometown of Texarkana, Texas...
...trouble started when he went out to buy cigarettes at a corner grocery in his hometown of Deerfield Beach, Florida, on Aug. 13, 1990. The store sold them two for a quarter, and Knighton, then 16, had only 20 cents in his pocket. So on the way he stopped to ask a neighbor, Schanell Sorrells, 13, for a nickel. Schanell said she didn't have one. He shouted, "Give it over." She refused...
...teens, wrote for Der Volksbote (the People's Messenger), the local Social Democratic Party paper; in 1930, not yet 17, he joined the party. When Adolf Hitler outlawed leftist parties in 1933, Herbert Frahm took the nom de guerre Willy Brandt, a name common in his hometown. Later that year, he fled on a fishing boat to Norway just as the Nazis were about to arrest...
Crystal attributes his contentment to Janice Goldfinger, the hometown girl he married in 1970. "I fell in love with the right person, a person I knew and who knew me. I still want to make her laugh." He was a full-time father before it was fashionable, changing diapers during the day and playing clubs at night, while Janice worked as assistant to the dean of theater at Nassau % Community College on Long Island. "I loved those years of being Mr. Mom. One of the saddest days in my life was when Jennifer said, 'Dad, I can wash...