Word: hometowners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hello...there. I'm a student here and I...ah, promised this kid from my hometown an autograph, ah, your autograph...and I ah, was wondering...
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With its big, roomy cars, extensive use of trolleys and elevated lines, and its wide, solid platforms, the MBTA has a hometown, airy style of its own. Even if New Yorkers laugh at the sight of trolleys impersonating subways in the underground stations of the green line, the MBTA is still worthy of exploration...
Before these two adversaries--master fishing guide Nichol Dance and encroaching novice Tom Skelton--die their beautiful deaths, McGuane unfolds the recesses of Tom Skelton's psyche. Skelton is a modern Thoreau. A refugee from prolonged drug miasmas and the turbulence of modern society, Skelton has retreated to his hometown to slow down his pace of life and get back to the core of his being, allowing just the essential eccentricities. His Walden is the ocean surrounding Key West...
...zeal to make sure it missed no Agnewesque indiscretions, the Congress subjected Ford to an extraordinary investigation. The FBI put 350 agents from 33 field offices onto his trail-sending 70 into Ford's hometown of Grand Rapids, Mich. Soon a steady stream of phone calls began coming into Ford's Washington office from friends and associates who wanted him to know that they were being questioned. Ford had one stock reply: "Tell them the truth-give them everything...