Word: hometowners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traveled around with Tunney for awhile. I was also with Unruh, wrote a piece on Unruh and Reagan...Nothing Jarman says in The Candidate hasn't been said by Reagan or Murphy People don't realize how crazy these guys are when they're with their hometown people...
...mother is going to be installed in the development curio shop. Junior himself is swiftly losing the respect he once held in other men's eyes. He asks stock contractor Buck Roan (played fullheartedly by Ben Johnson) if he could ride the Brahma bull once more for his hometown people, even offering half his purse money for it. Roan (before he finally accepts) shakes his head: "You've just got to admit to yourself you ain't the rider you were a few years ago...neither me nor my cattle aim to make a living off another man's pride...
Newsmen in the Midwest and Washington had been aware for years of rumors that Eagleton had experienced fits of depression and drinking, but proof had always been lacking. While Hoyt was en route to St. Louis, Eagleton's hometown, the phone rang in the office of John S. Knight III, editorial writer for the Detroit Free Press and grandson of the chain's editorial chairman. The caller seemed "very nervous," and said that he was a McGovern supporter. But he knew that Eagleton had been treated for mental disorders, and thought the fact should be publicized early...
...explanation. In both structure and phrasing, the song is partially reminiscent of Hendrix's "And the Wind Cries Mary," without the latter's cosmic reverberations. Nothing concrete can be said about the song's lyric. It's been reliably reported that the song combines images of Belfast. Van's hometown, and San Francisco, his new home, into a statement on the condition of his life at the present...
Dixieland band died down and the airplanes towing banners of encouragement had passed overhead, the hometown heroine went to work. Breaking Billie Jean's serve in the very first game, she took the opening set handily, 6-1. The second set was more of the same, as Chris kept her older opponent running with a maddening array of pinpoint placements, drop shots and lobs and-when an opening came-a two-fisted backhand drive down the line. In the final game, when the tenacious Billie Jean fought back from match point five times, one excited fan yelled...