Word: hometowners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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High school principals, as a rule, seem fond of imparting to their college-bound seniors the wisdom that although they are now big fish in the little pond of Hometown High, they soon will find themselves little fish in the big ponds of the college campuses of their choice--faced with the excitement and danger of a new world...
Barbed-wire buffs often rationalize their pastime by insisting that it gives them a sense of American history. Says Edward Mulcrone, a collector from Hometown, Ill.: "I wish every piece could tell me what it's gone through...
Conigliaro had traveled to my hometown of Portland, Maine, on a day off to sign autographs as a publicity stunt for an automobile dealership. Every kid in town worth his Carl Yastrzemski baseball card showed up at the lot that day in order to get Tony C's signature...
Detroit's Cobo Hall was jumping. In one sector of the huge entertainment complex pro tennis players were trading shots with muscular precision. A second area was awhirl with the lithe acrobatics of a track meet. On the Arena's basketball court the hometown Pistons were preparing to play the Washington Bullets. In that three-ring atmosphere, the management appropriately promised that costumed "clowns will perform throughout the game." The unintended reference ultimately proved embarrassing to the Pistons. Treating them like part of the sideshow, the Bullets won by 25 points and reinforced the claim that under...
...Harvard's history of humble hops off the ski jump will change with high-flyer Scott Woodward hurling himself toward Helios and the most distant hash marks. The hazel-haired Woodward hopes not to be handicapped by Harvard's hideous climatic habits through a combination of norther practice and hometown exercise on the Harvard team's hand-crafted roller jump...