Word: towns
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BORN in 1821 (at 4 a.m. on December 12), Flaubert spent his early years in Rouen, an industrial town in Normandy. He began writing when he was only eight years old, and despite several years of education to practice law, he remained a writer all of his life...
...Wirth noted that the Fed seemed to be caught in the midst of a dangerous "high-wire act," Greenspan solemnly replied, "It is." Unless the Administration and Congress can find a credible way to cut the budget deficit, the Fed's daredevil performance will remain the only act in town...
...violence, it did not take long for the debate at Mather to become a sweeping demonization of anyone with the slightest misgivings about the antihomophobic campaign that has grown around the incident of 19 February. The friends of the alleged harassee were dismissed as victims of their own "small town parochial morals about homosexuality," and a chorus of tolerant, sensitive Mather citizens told their peers what it was permissible for them to think and feel about the matter...
With casual dress and manner, King also read a newly-written short story, "The Rainy Season," a comic-horror tale of an unsuspecting professor and his wife who summer at a dingy summer town in Maine called "Willow...
...Middle Ages: an army of voracious rats emerges from Boston's sewer system, inspiring fear and loathing around the city. The rodents stream past Faneuil Hall, invading the festive food booths of Quincy Market. Soon the rats spread across Boston Common to the Massachusetts statehouse and move into the town houses in tony Back Bay. As panic rises, the assault becomes the biggest threat to the Boston area since Paul Revere warned that the British were coming...