Word: virginia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first came to Boston from Clear Creek, W. Va. in the early 50s. After getting in good with the locals, Stover maintained an 18 year run at Hillbilly Ranch, a somewhat seedy country-music Boston nightclub. Tiring of the cold winters, Stover moved to his wife's farm in Virginia, where he drinks water from the well on his property and warms himself with a wood-burning stove...
Heavy rains in the Appalachian hill country of eastern Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia and Virginia sent some rivers rolling to their highest flood levels in a century. As the Big Sandy, Cumberland and Kentucky gushed over their banks in Kentucky (a national guardsman described "a big whooshing noise"), five people were swept to their deaths and 7,600 families fled. When they returned, their homes were gone, or wrecked by water...
...silent...One last question--and somehow I think you know the answer... Will [Anna] join me in Virginia and will she and I and Siobhan begin a new life there...
Coach Corey Wynn's team got briefly back on track the following day, edging Virginia Tech 4-3, then reverted to its country club ways on Friday with a defeat at the hands of a powerful squad from Davidson...
...point, Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. of Virginia frostily asked Kendall: "What would be an appropriate punishment for a convicted rapist serving life who escapes and commits another rape?" Incarceration, Kendall replied. Powell drove the point home: "The same punishment he had before...