Word: towns
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...four newspapers were delivered each Sunday morning to his home in Fall River, Mass., where he got his first job delivering papers for the Fall River Herald at the age of 16. He grew up speaking French because of the town's large French-speaking population...
Written while Dionne was living in the small town of Keswick, Va., in a house with "a nice family, three dogs and horse named Hank," the book describes the destructive effect of partisan party politics on political discourse...
Dealey found just the spot, a prairie town of 15,000 called Dallas, and helped Belo establish the Dallas Morning News in 1888. In 1926, Dealey bought the Dallas paper from the Belo family and kept the corporate name out of respect and admiration for the family...
...CAPE TOWN: Church bombing isn?t necessarily a human rights violation, former South African president P.W. Botha told a court hearing today. Botha?s contempt-of-court trial heard evidence that the octogenarian hardliner had ordered the August 1988 bombing of the headquarters of the South African Council of Churches, in which 21 people were injured. Botha is unfazed by the charges: ?He?s never denied ordering the bombing,? says TIME Johannesburg bureau chief Peter Hawthorne. ?He?s never admitted it either. In his own inimitable way, he?s saying he did it because the building was the headquarters...
...METAPHOR] A SENIOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL: "If Coca-Cola owned the only store in town, you can bet it would be required to sell Pepsi...