Word: hometowner
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...pictured in the magazine next to the headline “She’s an Antismoking Crusader”—was chosen from thousands of applicants. Glamour selected Pasricha for her global movement, which began in 2001 when she organized a group of peers in her hometown of Hockessin, Del. to push for the Delaware Clean Indoor Air Act, which bans smoking in the state’s public establishments. The act was passed in March 2003. Pasricha said that her biggest challenge came when speaking at the legislative hearings weighing the bill...
...that frigidly cold day, Obama was announcing his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois, the hometown of Abraham Lincoln. But even more controversial than Obama’s absence to West was his decision to honor Lincoln, which some panelists, West included, viewed as betrayal to the “people,” the phrase he used to refer to the African-American population at large...
House: Cabot Concentration: Government Hometown: New York, New York Ideal Date: Competitive game of checkers and beer What do you look for in a girl: Confidence without pretension Where to find you on a Saturday night: Polishing my Emmys Your best pick up line: “Do you have a map? I’ve gotten lost in your eyes.” Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: “I fenced in high school in order to get out of gym class...” I actually fenced because I thought...
...Iraq, that I was good at something," he says. "Things fell into place - everybody depending on me, letting me know I was doing a good job." Hughes had every intention of reupping. His wife had other ideas. After he "separated" from the military last spring, they moved to her hometown of Batavia, Ill., into the basement of her parents' split-level home. He found seasonal work measuring flooring, and, as that work dried up, filled out applications at Target and Home Depot with growing panic, "everywhere except fast food...
...truth is that during Red Sox season, all local stories not concerning our national pastime are considered trivial to the consummate New Englander. While the arrest of dirty cop Jose Ortiz is of direct interest to a handful of local drug dealers, the fate of the hometown team each night is obsessed over by the millions that comprise Red Sox nation...