At the local recreation center Silly and I performed as the Shirondas in the annual fall talent show. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

By using seventy community health workers, Zanmi Lasante had vaccinated all the children in the area and greatly reduced local malnutrition and infant mortality. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Within the framework laid down by the High Command, the Regional Commands had authority to select local targets to be attacked. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hunt managed to sell only a few of his captives before local Roman Catholic priests seized the rest—the Spanish Church vehemently opposed brutality toward Indians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Columbia, he said, should run a full complement of the advertising created by his firm in the local editions of TV Guide and Parade magazine in twenty-six media markets around the United States. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the regional academic decathlon, a contest pitting teams of students from various local schools against each other, Odessa High had won four straight times. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The local Leapers were considered a low and trashy lot by many people. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She keeps walking between the two—listening to radio sounds, watching the local news. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Ugwu smelled the harshness of local gin as he lowered himself next to the boy and thought that perhaps he was a stunted man and not a boy. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a murmur of agreement, and for a moment all present seemed to be considering whether or not it would be proper to divulge to me the tale concerning this local personage. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Like the editorial meetings in 1244, like so many competitive situations large and small, national and local, black people frequently disqualified themselves even without the whites only sign in view. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Myers claimed to have committed the Vickie Pittman murder under the direction of another local sheriff; he laid out to us a widespread conspiracy involving police, drug dealing, and money laundering. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I flew to the competition with fencing friends from other local high schools and the foundation. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

However, this time line shows valiant efforts by union workers that were crushed by industrial corporations with the backing of local, state, and/or the federal government. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

She and Levi had gone to the local Chevrolet dealer to fill out the entry form and pick up a copy of the official rules, which read like a familiarization manual for an airplane. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I had heard of the Boulder Tap from the local news. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Now and then they would almost step into it, and quickly pull away, back into crops and local gossip and politics and health. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We sit in silence for a moment as the local radio station plays over the speakers and our feet brush up against each other. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

A tubby, mild-mannered recruit named Emminger, harshly flipped onto the mat, suffered torn ligaments in his shoulder and was sent off to the emergency room of a local hospital. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sheriff and local judges enforced the law only when it suited the coal companies. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“We’ve collected thousands of Jewish books from all over the kingdom. The abbots collected them for us, actually. They asked to ‘borrow’ them, for ‘copying’ purposes, from their local Jews. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“No, rather not,” beamed Giles, “as a matter of fact it’s a pretty good effort. I got our local tailor to rig it up. I’m coming as an Arabian sheik.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, local fishermen give him a fish they have caught. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Working women, “Yoo Hoo Girls” in the local vernacular, hung out the upstairs windows of cheap hotels and dance halls and even the fire department, calling out to the men on the street below. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The people who turned out for our home games—parents, little brothers and sisters, and other locals—had turned out for this game, too. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Victims' advocates were added to parole boards, and in most states they were given a formal role in state and local prosecutors' offices. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When we get home, my mom looks up prosthetists in the phone book, and what she discovers is that if we are going to stay local, Hank Kruber is our only choice. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Managers upbraided a group of messenger boys overheard dishing office dirt at a local diner, and engineers caught having a loud, detailed work conversation at the Industrial USO were called on the carpet. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“You all have your local customs going on here—I get that. Having your fun.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was at a hall in town, a place that usually showcased local bands, so the acoustics were terrible for unamplified classical. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the locals, the mountain of manure was a steaming eyesore. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is amazing what a single owl can do to a local population of ruffled grouse and rabbits in just a few months. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The local media were eager to join the prosecutors in criticizing the 60 Minutes piece because it implicated their coverage, which had largely presented only the prosecution's theory and characterization of Walter and the crime. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There’s some interesting local history of witchcraft here, too. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

A local veterinarian reported that his office was full of clients with dogs and cats that had suddenly sickened. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

We sued almost a dozen state and local officials and agencies. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Because this was my first local tournament, and I didn’t have a ranking of any sort, I was randomly placed in a tough pool with the number one seed. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

So the question is: if the universe starts out without the kind of curvature required for time travel, can we subsequently warp local regions of space-time sufficiently to allow it? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In these and other areas where food production depended on the arrival of founder crops from elsewhere, did local hunter-gatherers themselves adopt those founder crops from neighboring farming peoples and thereby become farmers themselves? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Laughing is against the law. Don’t you have a rule book? It’s local ordinance 574381-W.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Military and naval intelligence units, he said, have the situation well in hand and are taking proper local steps to guard against saboteurs and spies. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was a kind of local celebrity in the way that a longtime educator can be—always recognized by someone at the supermarket—but he never sought or expected any wider acclaim. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Irwin’s horses almost always won, and Irwin would clean out the locals, pack the horses back on the trains, and leave. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Similarly, when Sapiens reached East Asia, they interbred with the local Erectus, so the Chinese and Koreans are a mixture of Sapiens and Erectus. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sending this boy to a local doctor would cost the county $60. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Just before Christmas, the umpteenth local reporter from the umpteenth little paper eyed the bandages and asked Smith for the umpteenth time what they were for. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like countless other moms and their kids had done before, we went for a trip to the local shops. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

If Mom had chosen to, she could have explained to him that Mike Costello’s backside would be featured in the local paper often as he held the ball for this new placekicking sensation. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he could remove them in a procedure that could be performed with a local anesthetic right in his office. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Claire had been to several local competitions before and just missed qualifying for the Junior Olympics the year before. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She reads me the article: ‘“Spaulding Street Elementary’s talented academic team of fifth and sixth graders won the local Whiz Kids quiz competition last night by a score of eighty-six to eighty-five. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

For his part, Norman Mackworth had been born in India, the son of a British eye surgeon who performed cataract surgery for locals. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

When the local court order was appealed to a federal court, voting rights demonstrators took to the streets again. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Will the following teams please choose a representative for the eleventh game of our duodecimalthon: the Midwest, the Northeast, the Mid-Atlantic, the Mountain team, the Pacific team, and the local team from Alexandriaville, Ohio.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The local saloons and other businesses formed a Stockyards Aid Society, and relief stations distributed groceries to those families nearing starvation. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Asher was the head librarian at the local high school, so he had summers off. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Whoever’s commercials created the greatest increase in response to the local TV Guide and Parade advertising would win the whole account. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one would search for them there, Cox reassured them, and it was unlikely any locals would happen to see them there. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the late 1880s, thousands of women had become suffragists, and women could vote in some school board and local elections across the country. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Dad’s TV interview was the buzz of the Keys, and she didn’t want to deal with the stares and whispers at the local market. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Since she refused to partake of the local social life, Jean de Satigny was forced to go alone to the numerous events to which they were invited. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a local half-wit who spends his time on the beach,” said Favell. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

We had almost no money between us, but that morning, we went to see a local trader and made a deal to sell him two of the regent’s prize oxen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I’d been doing well at the local tournaments, but I didn’t realize I was anywhere near qualifying status for JOs. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The local folks made a big deal about wanting boys from around here to sign up. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“We are going to survey points of local architectural interest.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He seems to have overdone it with a couple of young recruits on the ploughed field at home and unknown to him the son of the local magistrate was watching. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Born in 1664, he was an ironmonger in Dartmouth, Devon, and an elder in the local Baptist Church. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As he was taken to the jail in Guthrie, he was confronted by a local reporter. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

An investigation uncovered evidence that the boxer had not acted alone but had been part of a conspiracy orchestrated by a band of local citizens. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Table 5.1 summarizes, for these and other areas of local domestication, some of the best-known crops and animals and the earliest known dates of domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

With men off to the front, womanpower picked up the slack, and local businesses went to extraordinary lengths to recruit and retain female employees. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Even his mother didn’t buy it at her local bookstore. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He looked behind him, in the direction of the local track. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The local constable would see to it that she did not run away. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Effective and inexpensive methods of local control have been known for years. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The lander was immobile, while Sojourner wandered around and got a good look at the local rocks. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the first Tuesday we rolled up to the Wynnum Ex-Services Bowls Club, located on the waterfront next to the local dump. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

When a local family left Louie off their dinner-party guest list, he broke into their house, bribed their Great Dane with a bone, and cleaned out their icebox. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

We rolled down the windows and waved at the local villagers. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps most revealing of all the hysteria propelling the Red Scare were laws passed by local and state governments throughout the nation that restricted parades and what they termed “radical activity.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

April was a recent graduate of BYU who modeled for a local diet center where she worked. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Poe won a short story contest and the prize was publication in a local paper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Later, he and his mom got a prescription from a local doctor. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Are you sure about the headline in the local paper: ‘Mechanized Rats Invade Hardware Store’?” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The students they criticized in the teachers’ lounge were the same students celebrated in a local newspaper article. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Bob goes part-time to the local community college. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

We involved expert pathologists and persuaded local authorities that there was no basis on which to convict Marsha of murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“And now for a special, local treat,” he said proudly. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The more Bill delved, conferring with doctors and local investigators, the more he was certain that Lizzie had died of something dreadfully unnatural: she’d been poisoned. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She petitioned local politicians to provide funds to have a new bathroom block built on the lower level, to no avail. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He ended up in the San Francisco Bay Area, living out of his backpack, going to rock concerts, sleeping in local parks. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Instead, we shouted, “Please, we are harmless and just passing by,” in every possible one of the eighteen local languages that each of us knew. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

As he dressed, I scanned the classifieds in the local papers and circled the garage sale ads. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

While Hollywood garnered most of the headlines, defense spending remained the focus of the local economy for the next two decades, providing about one-third of its jobs. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

Kenny had a history of mental instability—she claimed to be possessed by spells—and she had once even attempted to murder another local attorney. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My first inkling of just how daunting an undertaking it was to be came when I went to our local outfitters, the Dartmouth Co-Op, to purchase equipment. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There are grinning skulls; a ghoulish, blue-skinned woman with glowing yellow eyes; a caricature of a great, horned animal; illegible graffiti signatures; advertisements for local bands and theater productions. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They found only “would-be rescuers and thrill-seekers” crowding the local roads. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Many poor and minority victims complained that they were not getting calls or support from local police and prosecutors. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

With the crowd softened up by Wilkins and aroused by Farmer, the leader of the local protest group now harnessed the enthusiasm in the church and directed it toward a specific goal. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Did he know why someone would carve “LEAVE” into the beloved local wishtree? Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I get up and flip around until I find the local news station. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

That day at lunch, she’d attempted to create a bit of a family moment by reading aloud from the local paper, something of a Saturday ritual in the Hunter household. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

In Lockhart, after conducting our business, Harry loitered on the corner so he could admire the figures of the ladies strolling by, exhibiting the latest finery from the local milliner. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The author James Michener, a local Bucks County celebrity and big Kennedy booster, was among them. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The chefs had high praise for the quality of Polyface products, and clearly felt good about supporting a local farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Within weeks, the Post- Intelligencer was warning the locals to expect company, and competition for those jobs, soon. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Indeed. Who knew spending time in your local library could be such a rewarding experience?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The inconvenience of this system in record-keeping is palliated by various devices, for instance reference to well-known events, reigns of kings, dynasties, local lords, etc. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

They decided they had to warn the communities surrounding Boston that the British were on their way, so that local militia could be roused to meet them. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Skeeter is seated with a few local couples, not President Hilly or even Secretary Elizabeth this year. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The local people seem to have been happy to host the women aviators. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Because I’m not local and with luck I won’t still be here after the next full moon. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

On one of the coldest nights of the year, a record number of Iowans had fanned out to their local caucuses, almost double the turnout from four years earlier. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The day after the April 15 hearing, Bunderson wrote a memo following a long conversation with a local lay official in the Mormon Church, Rod Merrell, who was the president of the Shaws’ region. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The locals at Santa Anita and the press outside the Bay Area greeted the raving headlines from San Francisco with incredulity. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The local paper ran a story about it once. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

None of the local people or the cattle tested positive for Marburg antibodies—if they had tested positive, it would have shown that they had been exposed to Marburg. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Sticky helped his mother into her chair, he launched into a detailed explanation of weather systems and local geography. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The cost of weapons is small here because the Black Disciples had a side deal with local gunrunners, helping them navigate the neighborhood in exchange for free or steeply discounted guns. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

My mother was his secretary, and they ate lunch together every day at a local diner, each with a copy of the tabloid Philadelphia Daily News spread out in front of them. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mr. Richardson was a defense attorney and Mrs. Richardson worked for the local paper, the Sun Press. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Their cover was blown when an African-American woman who was waiting on them in a local tavern recognized one of the men as a British officer from Boston. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was interviewed twice on local television, profiled by newspapers, and by the Oklahoman magazine, and continued to draw crowds to his table. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My family got involved with a local church, and my dad formed a choir with the kids in the congregation. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They made mass arrests of students, sending them to the local jail, and when that was filled to capacity, to prison camps outside of town. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wants the sale of his eggs and meat to help other local businesses, like small shops and restaurants. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She went for two hundred and eighteen dollars in a hasty exchange, a drop in price occasioned by the realities of the local market. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Not dead, not murdered by some local boys who thought he’d gotten too uppity—just “gone,” as if one day he’d up and disappeared. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The emissary addressed the question to Yee, the local government official at whose home he had spent the night. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The local newspapers picked up the story, and parents started to maintain a vigilant presence at the school. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Outwardly, he was living a surprisingly conventional existence, even going so far as to open a savings account at a local bank. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even so, if the transformation is a coordinated, integrated physiologic process in its initial, local stages, there is still that permanent vanishing of consciousness to be accounted for. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In most of the states formed over the Maya area of Mesoamerica and the Andes, irrigation systems always remained small-scale ones that local communities could build and maintain themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Giving their guests a subtle hint that they should be moving on, 140 armed locals surrounded their encampment. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The local people along the border, the Anyuak, were good to us, and we went from village to village. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Paul’s own at-home technology was relegated to a black-and-white television he had in his room, and on which he watched local channels and monster movies. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He had worked briefly as an automotive parts salesman, a janitor, a car wash attendant, and a short-order cook at the local A&W fast-food franchise. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A student called to ask him for suggestions about what to write on placards; another student was contacting the local TV stations. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

During Mardi Gras, when the local jails were full, the New Orleans police often housed drunks and thieves in temporary jails set up in tents. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Yet the sheriff had never investigated Hale, nor had other local lawmen—an oversight that no longer seemed incidental. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

So Buddy put them inside the glass display case, whereupon the locals actually began to pay money for them hand over fist. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The local inhabitants did not look pleased at the prospect. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

From shopping for Mrs. Anderson, she was horrified that things in their local establishment cost two or three times as much as those in the white stores. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A translator explained he was part owner of the hotel as well as a local oligarch who controlled Siberian gas and oil fields. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Pointing my wand away from myself into the deadly folds of the creature, summoning the memory of the day I had been voted President of the local Gobstones Club, I performed the Patronus Charm. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pass only a few people on my way into town, locals who live here year-round. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even the tiniest of us knew the subway and local city bus schedules and routes by heart. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

This natural control, plus quarantine measures and local spraying, achieved what the Department in 1955 described as “outstanding restriction of distribution and damage.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The school had tried to make the Golden Day respectable, but the local white folks had a hand in it somehow and they got nowhere. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several local farmers heard the Mercury Theatre broadcast. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

That case involved a police raid on a nightclub in Chambers County during which black residents had been illegally detained, mistreated, and abused by local authorities who refused to accept any responsibility for their misconduct. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The city was trying to attract businesses to its new Research Triangle Park and the civil rights pioneers figured that local stores, wanting to avoid any bad publicity, would be “pushovers.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the third to last paragraph she wrote that, if things did not get better, “there has been talk from twenty-five or more local organizations of planning a city- wide boycott of busses.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He went from village to village and defeated every local champion. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I go to school myself and I know there is a lot of law, state law, national law, and local law.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

A solemnness hung in the air after she said this, until eventually Mr Taylor said to me: 'Harry here does a lot of organizing for our local member. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

On his travels in rain forests and tropical savannas, he ate with pleasure whatever the locals were eating. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keeping local farms in business keeps the countryside from being overrun by cities and suburbs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In contrast, another resident complained of the local employment opportunities and lack of shopping choices. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

An unskilled worker could join the local of his choice, but as union leaders expected, members sorted themselves along ethnic lines. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When her Cougars Care Project was featured on the local news 2 weeks ago, I almost told her congratulations. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It had worked, and the animal bounded away, saving him a trip to the local revival center. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A local DJ was onstage now, firing up the crowd. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Zoya Malkova and two of her friends visited the local military recruitment officer at least three times, begging him to assign them to combat duty. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Much of it made its way to the speakeasies of Seattle, but one bootlegger specialized in local customers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sandwich and a group of followers had sailed to New York, where he got on famously with the local tribe. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The whole local cast of characters was present. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

In many places the non-European locals never got a chance to acquire guns and ended up losing their lives or their freedom. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of the guests would inform the local authorities of Atzerodt’s boast. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

While many of the changes in Clarkston were hard to notice at first, certain events caused locals to wonder what exactly was happening to their town. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“It seemed like the young people were more fed up with the local situation than were the black adults,” he recalled. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The adoption of intensive food production from the Asian mainland was also very slow and piecemeal in Japan, probably because the hunter-gatherer lifestyle based on seafood and local plants was so productive there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

That day in Butte, we visited the local mining museum, had a water-pistol battle, and kicked a soccer ball around in the grass. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A doctor who didn’t understand local culture might mistake patients’ complaints for bizarre superstitions, or be utterly baffled by Haitian logic. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It was obvious to Ben that she was a lot more interested in the politics of homeroom than the muddled breastworks of state and local government. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was from the blue-collar mechanics, model makers, and technicians, many of whom hailed from local “sundown towns” such as Poquoson, where blacks were not welcome, that they usually caught hell. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

There were middle school kids of course, but there were also many grown-ups, local people. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pilot was out on a trip and would not return until tomorrow; his wife suggested the editor of the rural section of the local newspaper. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late in the year Adam made his great try, and it was a sensation in a year of sensations, both local and international. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“By then I was the chief of radiology at the local hospital,” she said. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

On the way home, all Suesetta can talk about is the boycott we will be having next month at one of the local grocery stores that still refuses to hire coloreds. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The new system of control is traceable, to a significant degree, to a massive bribe offered to state and local law enforcement by the federal government. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We entered into what was a U of Wyoming college party on the local Saturday night, something that people our age do quite frequently, but that we do not. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Believing that his discovery was important, he tried over the years to show the bones to local Folsomites. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They married local girls and just stayed there for the rest of their lives. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The markets bustled with activity; the taverns and coffeehouses buzzed with conversation; the federal, state, and local governments took up the business they had left off in September. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

We had taken a break from tennis practise, and were headed for the local cafe to get some cold drinks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thupa Inka closeted himself with the local leadership and laid out many inspired ideas for the valley’s betterment, all of which were gratefully endorsed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We sometimes chose to play on the green because the local buildings weren’t big enough. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They were state troopers, local police officers, deputy sheriffs, and what appeared to be part of a National Guard unit. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I’ll get to go to debutante balls and dinner parties, but the best part will be volunteering for local organizations that work with children. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Even worse, the local newspapers “carried big headlines” stating “Prominent D.C. Woman on Lost Plane.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Accompanied by a CBS television crew that filmed the tour, she visited twelve countries, singing in concert halls, meeting heads of state, and making informal visits to schools, churches, and local organizations. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

My partner was a local woman called Elena who was from Liverpool originally so I didn’t understand most of what she said for the first few days and vice versa. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered being dragged by her to the local cemetery in Houston, where they’d clean up their relatives’ gravesites and put out offerings of lemonade, cookies, and fresh marigolds. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“But it’s not like you to get so wrapped up in local concerns,” Nan said, fixing me with her eyes. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Her motel catered to a patchwork of local folks who were down on their luck. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

In addition to several citizens who contributed to the fund the local KKK sent Mayor Richards a note today offering to pay $250 into their reward fund. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1964 near the town of Philadelphia, Mississippi, three young civil rights workers—two white, one black—were killed by a mob of Klansmen for helping local blacks register as voters. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Always useful to know where the local wildlife hung out. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

And the document included a copy of obituaries for Keith and Jim published in the Herald Journal, Logan’s local newspaper, on September 25, three days after the accident. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In a moment of local love Dora named her place the Bear Flag Restaurant and the stories are many of people who have gone in for a sandwich. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Achmad, an Indonesian government officer, was acting as the boss, because he and I were organizing an ecological survey for the government and had hired Wiwor and Sauakari as local assistants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A local law required them to sit on opposite sides of an auditorium’s center aisle. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

There’s never an article in the paper talking about the local chair thief. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The twins moved to our local elementary school this year, but they seem to be loving it. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I quickly became the best saber fencer on the Columbia High School team, and I watched my ranking rise at the local competitions, often coming home with medals in my hand. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Why should she—it’s not like any of us locals went out of our way to make the egglets feel welcome. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

In reporting the incident, the local press gave the impression that all of the protesters were residents of McDougald Terrace. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mike was animated again, putting a great deal of trust in the local weatherman who promised sun tomorrow. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

If the Exalted Cyclops of the local Klan did not deem the issue important enough to continue fighting over, why should they? The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Fifty years of continued migration from the South increased blacks’ political muscle on the local level. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It’s a local paper’s website, nothing to worry too much about. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Often they bought whatever the local farmers had to offer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A runner was the one who moved packages for local suppliers who needed to make drop-offs for the street-level dealers but didn’t want to carry the weight themselves. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

A few blocks away, A. L. Jackson, executive director of the local Wabash Street YMCA, was pushing in the same direction. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I was trying to bring to the table wild pig, wild mushrooms, fresh local fruit, and garden-picked vegetables all at the same time. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It had been decorated for the Last Hoorah with balloons and confetti, and a local restaurant was even catering a big buffet. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In a frenzy, local police rounded up labor leaders and suspected radicals, plus hundreds of workers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Millions of dollars in federal aid have been offered to state and local law enforcement agencies willing to wage the war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But by leapfrogging the United States into space, the Russians had turned even local racial policy into fodder for the international conflict. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Tennessee lay outside Royal’s posting, but the railroad’s local representative had been out of contact since the wildfire. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It soon became clear, however, that these local people were perturbed by my presence, feeling something of a need to show hospitality. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Many Osage had come to believe that local authorities were colluding with the killers and that only an outside force like Davis could cut through the corruption and solve the growing number of cases. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Mr. Stone thought it was important to have “local color,” so I convinced him to build Mrs. Soldano a lunch counter where she could serve authentic Cuban cuisine to the tourists. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

A local jury awarded them half a million dollars, and the case was appealed to the U.S. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“A cab came speeding around the corner,” said Helene Castleman, a local baker, who witnessed the accident in front of her business. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The West Virginia engineer she had met on day one played oboe in a local symphony. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But the local sheriff’s department did not arrest them. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Rubble heaps are the remains of friends’ houses, of the corner shop where we bought ice cream, of our local bakery. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the BBC showed up in Turner Station, asking locals about life there in the forties and fifties. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Carl was a local boy who knew a thing or two about hexes and about Milagro history, and so he reacted accordingly. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He invited her to meet him on Saturday at 1 p.m. at a coffeehouse called “The Fountain” where they had live local music on weekends. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

This bridge has more traffic because it links downtown with the west side of Bartlett, where the high school is and the local college is and all these neighborhoods are, growing up in between. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We later found out that privately, despite the confidence expressed in his statements to local media and to 60 Minutes, Chapman had begun to worry about the reliability of the evidence against Walter. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Armpit’s mother had had to shoo away a number of reporters, local and national. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I soon discovered that if a wayfaring stranger wishes to eavesdrop on a local population the places for him to slip in and hold his peace are bars and churches. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The local leshy would get her lost, which was something she couldn’t afford right now. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The basic cause, we suspect, was that the Neolithic Revolution had been too successful in this area, permitting the local population to grow beyond the available food supply. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Discovery started as a local concept, symbolized at first by the erecting of new ‘pillars of Hercules’ by Portuguese explorers advancing along the coasts of Africa. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As these new phone companies came online, offering their own local, long-distance, international, data, and Internet services, each sought to have its own infrastructure. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

As for Chinese writing, first attested around 1300 B.C. but with possible earlier precursors, it too has unique local signs and some unique principles, and most scholars assume that it evolved independently. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As he got his bearings, he glanced at a statement Reggie had already written out for the local police. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Some kids on the team competed in the local and regional competitions as well, and those were held on Sundays! Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

We started donating a portion of every harvest to Miriam’s Kitchen, a local nonprofit that served the homeless. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

After that, a local Bled newspaper published a group of caricatures of all eight players, and a souvenir postcard was made of the drawings. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The locals began to realize how many horrible things happened to people who bought those good-luck charms or got paid with Queen Marie’s treasure. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Around town, they confused and horrified residents by doing things like dismantling a toaster with a screwdriver at the local department store to make sure the heating coil would toast the bread just so. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Even so, most locals were oblivious to how they and their colleagues spent their days; and to be frank, they found them more than a little peculiar. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Two weeks after we arrived, Ava Willis, a local caseworker, came to check on us. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The driver shouted something at his elephant in the local tongue. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Soon she would join the League of Women Voters, where in time she would become a local leader in the fight for women's rights. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mom did get a part-time job at a local bookstore, so she can interact with people and keep her mind from wandering back to California. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

A local doctor said, “I couldn’t begin to remember how many sick people have received medical attention at his expense, nor how many hungry mouths have tasted of his bounty.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We also had a radio, but one that received only local stations, not what we really wanted: the BBC World Service. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How about this? Only x number of animals are adopted each month from the local shelter.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I read this bad poetry at open mics in local cafes populated mostly by other poets who also felt the insecurity of their bodies. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

You don’t bother with an ad in the local paper. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Poe won a short story contest and the prize was publication in a local paper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“And instead of an entrance fee, we asked for a donation, either money or food, for a local homeless shelter.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I see call letters printed on the sides of their microphones—it’s the local news stations. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A vegan world could not be fed with local food chains. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In fact, Durham was reacting to a host of local, national, and even international pressures that made change inevitable. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You know all the local terrain, and you’re clearly brave enough. What do you say?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

When Bobby, as was typical, arrived past two o’clock, the restaurant would be sparsely filled: perhaps a Danish hippie, two American tourists, and three young local girls preoccupied with what they thought was important gossip. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Later, we also saw local South African films with black stars whom we all knew from the old days. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brian heard reports that someone had gotten permission to solicit at one of the local factories—four guys had circulated through the place and sold three hundred boxes in a couple of hours. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gang of kids, thinking she was one of the local toughs, tackled her and tried to steal her pants. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Once, the local director of la migra threatened to lock up the priest for several years on smuggling charges if he didn’t bar migrants from entering his church. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Peoples of the Fertile Crescent domesticated local plants much earlier. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Winston got drunk and started fighting, the locals knew it was time for the soberest man to ride and get Fannie. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The men had little commerce with local people, but being avid radio listeners they could report news and politics from all parts of the nation. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mistress of the local inn was at first shocked to see a young girl traveling alone and then solicitous. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

So my mom would take us to the local grocer at the corner to seem like we were walking around the neighborhood doing chores. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Bryan was an innkeeper with secret ties to the local Committee of Safety. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rindlisbacher started looking for witnesses; the local cop showed him to Kaiserman, who was sitting in the back of an ambulance and gave the trooper his account of the swerving Chevy Tahoe. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We visited a set of converted buses where local artists were doing art therapy with displaced children who, despite their losses and thanks to the adults around them, still bubbled with hope. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

What gets taught in America’s public schools has always been a mixture of state and local preferences influenced by various passing trends. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

By the same token, the potency of a 2,000-mile north—south shift as a barrier also varies with local conditions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The Plain Dealer is the real paper. The Sun Press is just local stuff: city council meetings and zoning boards and who won the science fair.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Previous investigators, including local lawmen and the private eyes, had spoken to these valuable witnesses and then seemingly buried what they had learned. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Some of the locals in the Keys poach a lobster here and there in the off months. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The authorities both local and national had to spend every penny in their treasuries and every second of time in the sole task of dealing with the chaos. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Despite the local media reaction, the CBS coverage gave the community a summary of the evidence we'd presented in court and created questions and doubts about Walter's guilt. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It takes four local high schools to field a single football team: the Jefferson- Scranton-Paton-Churdan Rams. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The moon was behind a cloud and, sitting out in the blackness of the yard, she could still smell that cheap vapor-heavy scent of local gin. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s a local Jackson show, and it come on in color, right after the twelve o’clock news. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It is a movement away from the industrial food chain and toward a more local, organic food system. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The head of the local Klan was obviously a more complex character than many had imagined. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The bishop is a lay leader for the local ward, which is one of the small but critical parts of the highly organized and hierarchal Mormon structure. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Egyptians then domesticated the sycamore fig and a local vegetable called chufa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A landrace is a family of local varieties, each of which may have scores of “cultivars,” or cultivated varieties. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“That’s a local history museum that’s been around forever. This is a brand-new thing. Don’t try to make it the same.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The cover image in the local paper is a crowd of people with hand-lettered signs camped outside the police station where Franklin was brought and released hours later. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Does this one have anything to do with points of local architectural interest?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

It was a reporter from the local paper. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I reported on local D.C., and I found that people would tell me things, that the same softness that once made me a target now compelled people to trust me with their stories. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

By the late 1990s, the overwhelming majority of state and local police forces in the country had availed themselves of the newly available resources and added a significant military component to buttress their drug-war operations. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“He was the person responsible for local residential zoning,” Gerald says. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The local trees, which had once stood tall, had been cut down to be the lodge poles upon which our plastic-bag huts were built. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Manny’s parents more or less sponsored the Atlanta chapter of the Justice for JAM movement, so of course they’d participated in the local marches. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The local hobbits stared in amazement, and then sprang to their feet and shouted for Barliman. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

German beer drinkers are fiercely loyal to their local brand, so there are no national brands in Germany analogous to our Budweiser, Miller, or Coors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The grade of Nineteenth Avenue was so daunting for the engines of the day that watching automobiles straining for the top became a local pastime. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pretrial detainees are generally housed in local jails, where they enjoy more privileges and more latitude than convicted criminals who are sent to prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He gave Big Ma the local newspaper with her gossip paper folded within it and Big Ma went back to her room and left the television to JimmyTrotter. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The Anvil, a local alternative paper, dispatched reporters into the streets to gauge public reaction the morning following the disturbance. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Once elected, Reagan’s promise to enhance the federal government’s role in fighting crime was complicated by the fact that fighting street crime has traditionally been the responsibility of state and local law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

That is, Indian peoples domesticated the local Indian subspecies of wild aurochs, Southwest Asians independently domesticated their own Southwest Asian subspecies of aurochs, and North Africans may have independently domesticated the North African aurochs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“My husband works as a women’s clothier, and we employ several local women to make garments to order. We are looking for a girl who is good with a needle.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The mills kept going as long as there was cane to grind—the season varied between four and ten months, depending on the local growing conditions. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The local rounds, with teams from elementary schools all around the city and county, are held downtown at a hotel. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He had an idea to remake the image of the local party machinery. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had pulled into the parking lot of our local pharmacy to run an errand, and checked my skin in the rearview mirror like I often did before getting out of the car. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Lee said, “One new item. I have confirmed some of your man Harrison’s information. The new commander is definitely George Meade, not Reynolds. The news is carried in the local newspapers.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no planet-wide storm when this spacecraft entered the Martian atmosphere, and no reason to suspect a local storm, as sometimes happens, at the landing site. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This enclave was Prince George’s County— “PG County” to the locals—and it was, to my eyes, very rich. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

"Everything here is push,” wrote a local newspaper editorialist in 1906, "everything is on the move, every citizen is looking out for everything that will make Durham great.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But these state-based deliberations quite naturally tended to focus on local or regional interpretations of the Constitution’s rather elliptical handling of the forbidden subject. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She continued to sing with the junior choir as well, with the hundred-voice People’s Chorus, and at local church and social events. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Cuco tracks were found along the path, with droplets of blood confirmed by the local witch doctor to be a match for the victim. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then, in late 1925, the local priest received a secret message from Mollie. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The town’s inflated reputation didn't come just from the boasts of the local black bourgeoisie, however. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, that was Billy’s. A noisy yellow canary that was eaten by a kestrel when we hung her cage outside one afternoon. It made the local paper. Luckily we’d already done the recordings.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Chef Morgan is the author of three acclaimed cookbooks and host of the local television show Let's Get Cooking! on WBAL. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The local papers don’t run any information about Boy21 except the number of points he scored in the game, and his assists and rebounds. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to all these factors, Eurasia was the continent on which technology started its post-Pleistocene acceleration earliest and resulted in the greatest local accumulation of technologies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The evening newspaper ran a review headlined local group pitches in, cleans up warehouse. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Sasha gave an interview to the local news, wearing a skirt over bandaged legs. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Both her comrades and the local people laid wreaths for her. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was how Jackson got locals to trust him instead of the banks, even though his rates were straight usury as well. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

With his father’s grudging approval, Mohammed crewed on local fishing boats in the afternoons and evenings, and even at fourteen, after a full day of fishing miles from land, Mohammed insisted on swimming to shore. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He even imagines a local doctor dissecting the chigger, the smallest creature visible to the human eye—and thus of course impossible to dissect. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We usually look for our names on the local school sport report, but this swastika business is getting bigger than everything right now. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He would later give an interview to a local paper, estimating that during the six or so months he campaigned for Congress, he spent less than four full days at home with me and Malia. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Poe won a short story contest and the prize was publication in a local paper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A complete answer to that question would be long and complex, since Western music, like any living language shared by many different communities, has many "local dialects." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

If the regiment held a dance and local girls got invited, Katya would introduce herself as Volodka and get them to dance with her. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

KVNU, a local radio station, reported the temperature at thirty-three degrees. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

As his group departed, I noticed that he spoke fluent Creole, the local language, with his Haitian friends. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Sometime in 1925 Johnny and his guardian pulled into the old mining town of Butte, Montana, where the local bullring racetrack linked up with a network of other tracks, carnivals, and fairs. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first of these acts of violence took place on May 8, 1919, in Charleston, South Carolina, after a fight between local blacks and sailors stationed at a nearby naval training station erupted. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Her master offered the local boys twenty dollars for delivery plus all reasonable expenses. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

So Dad took the leg to the local service station to see if they could weld it together. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Once again I had to bend the rules since there are no good local mushrooms in the Bay Area in June. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Two contrasting explanations suggest themselves: problems with the local people, or problems with the locally available wild plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A local phrenologist was in one corner measuring a girl’s skull and preparing to read her character from his findings. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Folks in Clarkston sent their kids to Clarkston High School, went to services at one of the churches on Church Street, and bought their groceries at a local independent grocery store called Thriftown. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I already mentioned their knowledge of hundreds of local plant and animal species and each species’ edibility, medical value, and other uses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When a delegation from Quincy came out to visit him to request words for a toast at the local celebration, he was curt. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Even Emanuel Lasker, who ultimately became World Chess Champion, was as a child denied membership in his local club in Germany, despite his evident talent. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, send somebody, because I need medical attention. The kid has my weapon. Yeah, I know, I know. Just send me some local help, comprende?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The arrival of founder domesticates enabled local people to become sedentary, and thereby increased the likelihood of local crops’ evolving from wild plants that were gathered, brought home and planted accidentally, and later planted intentionally. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She lives in Croydon, a hamlet just south of Levittown along the Delaware River, which is frequently the butt of jokes among students in the local schools. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Okay, the first thing I’m going to do is give all of the local animal shelters a call,” John says from the other end of the line. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

We booked in a local hotel and found a crowd of blacks and whites sitting on the veranda making polite conversation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He believes that more and more consumers will make the choice to buy local, “beyond organic” food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

With guns so cheap and so easy to get, the standard criminal has no incentive to fill out a firearms application at his local gun shop and then wait a week. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“But don’t worry, Andrew. Your public library will soon be a true public library. Mr. Lemoncello will turn it over to a local board of trustees and flee.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even the wealthiest men, influencing the far-off London exchanges and local commerce alike, provided no inspiration. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then we went up past the old fort and out to the local Syndicat d'Initiative office, where the bus was supposed to start from. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He used to make me do laps in the local community center pool when it was too cold outside to go running. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The Pentagon, for its part, has given away military intelligence and millions of dollars in firepower to state and local agencies willing to make the rhetorical war a literal one. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Get your trial bottle of Old St. Jack’s at your local hardware store, next to the varnish. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I tried as best as I could to look for local produce. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It empowered and spread forms of music that had developed without notation, making available to a mass audience folk and ethnic music that had up to then been confined to local communities. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

From her involvement with the local chapter of her sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, and her choice of a church, Carver Presbyterian, Katherine gained a strong social network and a new best friend. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The local city library’s collection of African-American books was limited to a few dog-eared copies of Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery and a few other equally innocuous works. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I guess her A train wasn’t running local this morning. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

After the cutoff, the union local, not certain what else to do about it, threatened to strike. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As the day approached, Oliver and I were in the township daily, meeting local leaders, discussing plans, and acting in our professional capacity for those being forced out of the area or prosecuted. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We cannot yet directly see the planets of other stars, tiny points of light swamped in the brilliance of their local suns. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the families talked to a local pastor, who checked that both sides had consented to the union. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Their accusers tended to be wealthier individuals who controlled local institutions or had ties to the national government, and were sometimes even the women’s landlords or employers. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

She did not know, but would not have been surprised to learn, that the angry white man was the leader of the local Ku Klux Klan: C. P. Ellis. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But Finn didn’t know any local people who had owned a horse as special as this one; he would have remembered. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He wanted to use Chacko’s visit to impress local supplicants and Party Workers. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was reminded of a local jest: “Know what they say about you, Herb? Say, ‘Since haircuts went to a dollar-fifty, Herb writes the barber a check.’ In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had taken a while for local lawmen to arrive at the hospital. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When a local black minister,J. D. Hunter, brushed aside warnings to stay out of politics, segregationists burned his house to the ground. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is now very clear that we live some 30,000 light-years from the galactic core, on the fringes of a spiral arm, where the local density of stars is relatively sparse. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mother who attended the play with her high school daughter complained about it in a memorable letter to the local newspaper. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They ran the schools and the local government. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, a local kid nicknamed “the Nebraska Wildcat” was the hottest boxing property around. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They relied on local Indigenous people to help them find necessities such as water and medicinal herbs. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the market, Lazlo bought himself a shirt and jacket in the local style, neither of them gray. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Luma said she would always supervise; the team would supply its own equipment; the program would be insured; the players were all local. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The ASL at first concentrated on having local churches carry its anti-alcohol message to its parishioners. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The closest thing was the house of the town physician, “Doc” Babcock, who kept a few spare beds to cope with the cuts and bruises suffered by the local loggers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Consequently two different scientific communities will always produce two radically different bodies of scientific fact and theory, and science is not a cross-cultural form of knowledge but a local consensus, specific to a particular community. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“The police department. Maybe people in the local government.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Plenty of Philadelphians back then still called their neighborhoods by the name of the local Catholic parish. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Kids are like that, why worry? Someday she’ll grow up, someday our friendly local Gestapo will make her apologize—” “We all should live so long,” Bud groaned. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the war intensified, the town post office was awash in civil service job bulletins, competing for the eyes of locals and college students alike. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Some outlying areas went on to domesticate a few local crops of their own, such as poppies in western Europe and watermelons possibly in Egypt. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The gathering was meant to be a rally for several hundred of our local supporters as well as a kind of casual birthday celebration for Malia. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Venal local officials sought to devour the Osage’s fortunes. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I could see the crowd of local people clustering round the churchyard at the funeral, and myself leaning on Frank’s arm. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Soon thereafter Waterman ran for the local school board on a platform promoting unrestricted sex for students and the legalization of hallucinogenic drugs. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you say anything, they kill you. Better to keep your mouth shut,” says Antonio, a local elderly man, who is afraid to give his last name. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I had already heard about a remarkable local politician named Yali, who was touring the district then. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The local papers would have a field day reporting that while I was running a principals’ conference in Las Vegas, my trusted eighth grade president was emptying my treasury. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

In a slightly smaller font beneath these words, it says: Join our new group for young activists, get involved with local politics, and create the change you wish to see! The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The local Catholic archduke, steadfast in dogmatic certainty, vowed he would rather “make a desert of the country than rule over heretics.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

These, and bits of local lore recalled from his childhood, he would tell in his soft slurry dialect, and then growing tired would ask me for a story. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is one of the town’s two “apartment houses,” the second being a ramshackle mansion known, because a good part of the local school’s faculty lives there, as the Teacherage. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the gate there was a bundle of switches tied together with a cord, the symbol adopted by local ruffians as a warning of punishment to follow. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

There will be booths selling goods from local stores and restaurants. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Put out ads asking for people with ‘Indigenous bloodlines and good general health’ to check in with local clinics for medical trials. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Poe won a short story contest and the prize was publication in a local paper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“We looked you up in the local phone book but you weren’t in it, so we rang all the other Kennedys around here. Your mother gave us the address.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

A group of locals formed "The Mockingbird Players of Monroeville" to present a stage version of the story. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The same may have been true on the Atlantic coast of Europe, where local hunter-gatherers apparently adopted Southwest Asian sheep and cereals over the course of many centuries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lance and the anchorman got all revved up speculating how the sting must have netted a couple big local players—guys with enough power to keep the names locked down tight. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“It means that government brass thinks the local police can’t handle the situation by themselves.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Republican troops that fought with Cassius had joined forces with the Parthians; so had many of the local kings who were once friendly to Mark Antony’s cause. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Afterward, the townspeople found a local man dead in a ditch near the railroad tracks. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Even in the big cities, the local experts were nothing. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Leo remembered special Friday-night dinners he and his mom used to share at a local seafood restaurant in Houston. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes, ma’am. I am sorry for your losses. We will do our best to recover your things. We’ll check local pawnshops and the like. If you think of anything else, please let us know.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He decided to seek the help of the local kings in order to avoid past mistakes. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

In a neighboring village, there was an African dance-hall known as Ntselamanzi, which catered to the cream of local black society and was off-limits to undergraduates. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We could call some of those reporters. The main goal would be to get a story in the local white papers,” Grandma said. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The local minister—who I’d only met once before—was in the middle of his closing prayer when I glanced over and saw a tiny kitten. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

At the local coffee shop, hunched in one of the secretive, high-backed booths with hundreds of people's names gouged into the wood, we drank cup after cup of black coffee and talked frankly about sex. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Later, at Police Headquarters in Salt Lake City, a local television company was allowed to film an interview with them. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

What we ate, we got from trading with these local tribes. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The local state’s attorney referred to the neighborhood as the training ground for “the Canaryville school of gunmen.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A photograph of the two of them was taken for the local paper in her parents’ town. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“One of the local stations has regular updates,” Mom tells me, “but it’s that brainless anchor I can’t stand. And besides, there’s nothing new.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

What if I didn’t even make it to our local underground station? The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many state and local law enforcement officials were less than pleased with the attempt by the federal government to assert itself in local crime fighting, viewing the new drug war as an unwelcome distraction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We knew we needed to keep moving toward Kenya, but we were afraid of the local tribes between Kapoeta and the Kenyan border. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re tourists, from Japan it looks like, a trade delegation perhaps, on a tour of the historic landmarks or out for local color. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there are so many others who have come, like Pastor Stevens, Rabbi Weiss, local officials, my principal, and a bunch of teachers from my school and the others in the county. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

There have been a few articles about the bank robbery in the local papers. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

She was trying to sell me on a local Catholic school called St. Anthony’s. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The demonstrators were carted off to the local police station and charged. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Spanish reporter from one of the local news shows wanted to interview me because of my Lego city and all of the attention it had got online. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

A local artist even sketched her while she was in the studio. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Speaking with European accents that locals couldn’t quite identify, the visitors asked for directions to “the cottage of Dr. Moore.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crying students, furious parents, school-wide assembly, snippets in the local papers. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“We can tell you anything you want to know about the local fauna.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then came summer, a long, magical, thirteenth summer, which he spent keeping out of the way of the bigger kids, swimming in the local pool, reading library books at poolside. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I could not pick up and leave whenever I wanted; security had to be arranged, as well as speeches prepared for local organi-zations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man phoned his local police station in the Bronx, a New York City borough, certain the invaders were bombing New Jersey because he saw the smoke from his roof. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

We learned how to find and cook local foods. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Sometimes ships caught on the Teeth if they weren’t familiar with the local coast. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

All around us I see candlelight flickering to fife from window to glassless window, and here and there the locals light small fires along the edges of alleys. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They killed off, directly or indirectly, hundreds of species of birds, insects, snails and other local inhabitants. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were like cops on a beat, the guys who knew the local players, the ones who saw it all. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cable was back up and a local station gave the all clear on highway driving. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The local aircraft maintenance team came to the rescue. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

That evening, when Frith brought in the local paper, there were great headlines right across the top of the page. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“He wants to approach this thing from the point of view of the local communities.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In this chapter we have looked at a series of local histories: Kepler’s efforts to make accurate measurements of Mars; the introduction of the word ‘fact’ into English; the weapon salve. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The irrepressible Regina managed to get Bobby and his friend Stuart Margulies an interview on a local television show. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And I hadn’t been in the school long when Mrs. Swerlin, knowing I could use spending money of my own, got me a job after school washing die dishes in a local restaurant. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marti once heard a story "about a bug embedded into the sole of an officer's shoe when he sent them to the local cobbler. So," she added, "no one had shoes resoled in Moscow." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Both teams were playing hard, and the close game had drawn the attention of parents and players on other local teams scheduled for games later in the morning. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

After initially denying any direct involvement in the Pittman murder, Myers conceded that he may have played some accidental role but quickly put the blame for the murder itself on more interesting local figures. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Over a traditional ten-course Chinese dinner at a local hotel, the mayor told me how far Dalian has come and just where he intends to take it. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“If from the milk,” asked Dr. Poitevint, “why were not special precautions taken to protect our children who drank milk from local dairies?” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Some local people—they were Elgon Masai—had lived inside some of the caves on Mount Elgon and had kept their cattle in the caves. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the survivors find a quiet niche and settle in, blending inconspicuously with the locals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Also present were Major O. W. Hotchkins, chairman of the separate local defense council; Bart Johannson, an assistant to Major Hotchkins; and S. Austin Coney, organizer of the island’s Interceptor Command force. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In Los Angeles, Ellsberg was invited to speak on a local television show. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Ang Dorje is a tough, nuggety rock of a man and we had already shared several glasses of Chang, the fiery local brew. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Another woman was a devout Catholic who walked four miles with her three children to the local town for mass on Sunday. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He reached out to the heads of the agencies to see if they might be willing to answer questions from locals at a town hall meeting. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Students are taking brochures off tables, watching short videos, talking to recruiters from various schools and local businesses. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

We make a big group at the local community college, all of us kids, Mr. Hameed, and Dad, who took a personal day off from work. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Just like that. I’ve been involved in ecological restoration projects ever since. I also work with a lot of local tribes who are trying to save their traditional fishing rights.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even before the piece was broadcast, the local media seemed to be urging the community to distrust anything they heard reported about the case. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The courts, local lawmen, and state and national troops all lined up against the union organizers. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

They stayed devoted to their Sunday night mixed doubles bowling league and were deeply involved in local politics—which were no less grubby than the politics they left behind in the city. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

We had a collection of pressed flowers and many shells, not only the local kinds from the Bournemouth beach but exotic ones collected by my adventurous great-grandfather during his travels to Australia and such places. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

A small article with a postage-stamp-size photo of me is in the local paper, and a fund is started for my future education. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Because when I was your age, Mrs. Tobin, my local librarian, gave it to me.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Once, on a day when they didn’t have to fly, they helped local peasants to harvest a field full of rye. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Brown divulged what he was learning at the weekly Klan meetings: the identities of the Klan’s local and regional leaders; their upcoming plans; the Klan’s current rituals, passwords, and language. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

They spared fertile females and young lambs in order to safeguard the long-term vitality of the local herd. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in addition to local news and chronicles, some foreign advertising creeps in. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only pedestrians were a few families, probably locals, enjoying a warm afternoon. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. It's a sort of a local joke.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The boutique clothing stores, several neighborhood art galleries, and other local restaurants and cafés were all part of the model. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

There’s no competition; there are just a thousand local monopolies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Down on the gym floor, Jake, Kojo, and Grace were being mobbed by friends, family, and camera crews from the local TV stations. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

King Ban was fortunate in living at Benwick, for the Bordeaux swords were local and particularly good. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, they evidently knew the local wild plants as intimately as do modern New Guineans, and they used that knowledge to select and bring home only the most useful available seed plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Marsha and our team were thrilled, local officials in Baldwin County less so. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“The A train is running local today,” I say like a studious robot, “what a hassle.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

First there was the local apple crop, threatening to rot because the harvesters had all gone into the army or war factories. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

These private eyes leaked to several local officials that Morrison was working with the bureau, then went so far as to detain him on a trumped-up robbery charge. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A local reporter asks JB and I how we got so good. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

The phone calls began—from BYU’s student paper and the local news. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I got it dug by paying a whole troop of local boys for each and every basket of earth they moved. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She began visiting patients at a local public hospital. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

We separately measured brainwide synchronization in local and long- range channel pairs. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The local newspapers have actually done stories about us bringing Zlata here and how we’ve made monumental changes in our lives. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The local paper had run an article about the festival and an interview with Abby and me. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The county folk loved reading about their local legends. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was in Kimberley during the Defiance Campaign that one of the ANC’s leading members was sentenced to lashes by the local magistrate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another area where local domestication appears to have followed the arrival of Southwest Asian founder crops is the Indus Valley region of the Indian subcontinent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It makes sense, then, that the construction of small and mediumsized hydroelectric plants—capable of serving local industry and built mostly by hand, using basic technology—has been a priority since the 1990s. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I spoke to local and national TV channels, radio, and newspapers—I spoke out to anyone who would listen. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A great big wonderful waxing bomber’s moon was rising as she arrived at the pickup airfield, and Maddie landed just before the local squadron took off. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Toot, a stout, gray-haired woman who’d worked her way up to becoming the vice president of a local bank, made us tuna salad sandwiches for lunch. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In the morning, when I emerged from my room, the locals were out and about cleaning up the mess, and a few drunken tourists were still celebrating their victory over nature. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The locals standing up for us against the police. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

This gushing adoration cannot be dismissed merely as local boosterism; black newspapers across the South described the town in much the same terms. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

West was an outspoken advocate for black empowerment and one of the leaders of the local NAACP. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, many parents so magnify the benefit of a car seat that they trek to the local police station or firehouse to have it installed just right. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Anaheim had been settled in the late nineteenth century by German immigrants hoping to create a local wine industry and by a group of Polish expatriates trying to establish a back-to-the-land artistic community. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

When there were still no arrests several months later, the whispers became louder, and public criticisms of the police, sheriff, and local prosecutor were aired in the local newspaper and on local radio stations. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In his worldview, as Farmer understands it, people turn themselves into animals for shifty reasons, or else local sorcerers turn them into animals as punishment, or simply for food. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Bothersome horned snakes that ate anything they could get their mouths around—including, local gossip said, small children. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The two complaints were not helping the old firebrand Malcolm X image any, nor were they generating the local public interest that was badly needed by his small, young OAAU. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they began arresting everyone affiliated with the local government. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

So my dad, with his entrepreneurial spirit, planned a fund-raising dinner at a local hotel, inviting some well-known speakers from the community as entertainment. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

In one notorious plot of 1861, local rebels schemed to assassinate the president-elect when his railroad train passed through Baltimore on the way to Washington for his first inauguration. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A list of all the people that Trujillo wanted to see there had been published in the local paper. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Traveling west along the northern routes I did not hear a truly local speech until I reached Montana. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The local coroner held that the death had resulted “from disease, the fatal termination of which was hastened by flogging, labor, and general harsh treatment, imposed by .. . Elam Lynds. ...” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, eighty-five national and local organizations, and more than three hundred prominent individuals, signed on as sponsors of the “Freedom Concert,” as it was now called. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I spot a small commuter jet descending to land at the local airport, and I send it all my love. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Southern state court judges and all-white juries were all too willing to rule in favor of “defamed” local officials, and state authorities had won millions of dollars in judgments this way. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Fadi glanced at the table the school tree huggers association had set up to raise money for a campaign to clean up local beaches. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

State and county officials are under no compulsion to follow the federal pesticides tolerances unless local laws happen to conform — and they seldom do. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

This contrast between local meanings and cosmopolitan messages is a perfectly sound one. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Disguised as a traveler, she would slip into taverns and coach houses to eavesdrop on conversations and chat with the locals, then bring the peasant talk back to camp. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He feared that because of the lawsuit he would be a target of local police, that they would manufacture charges against him, try to justify his arrest. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I gathered through overhearing my parents that Brother Fowles had entered into unconventional alliances with the local people, and too he was a Yankee. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Olmec, it was proposed, visited Peru, and the locals, dutiful students, copied their example. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a Rockport T-shirt, which meant they weren’t local, and they sounded like they were from the Midwest. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The Chief Ranger suggested calling a local bush pilot, who flew hunters into the remoter parts of the bush and knew most of the Indian guides. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

More like a young man who spent all his time in the library of the university, or the private archives of the local magistrate. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The performers spent their afternoon with young people who’d come from local high schools—budding playwrights, dancers, and rappers kicking around the White House, writing lyrics and dropping beats with their heroes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“We’re doing a school project on local government. Would we be able to see some records from a council meeting?” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Max Myer, the meteorologist at one of the local TV stations, was checking himself in a hand mirror, prepping and primping to be the celebrity quizmaster. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

It’s twenty minutes later when we’re watching the local news that I realize what should have come out of my mouth. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Students walked across the Queen Street Bridge to downtown Hampton and converged on the lunch counters at Woolworth’s and Wornom’s, the local drug store. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Immediately after lunch we are summoned to a local restaurant. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Something big was obviously going on, and locals wondered if jobs might be available. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t afford many new books, but we belonged to the local library. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could call a cab, but I’m afraid his parents will call the local cab companies to see if they’ve picked up any metalhead teens lately. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

His father was a Dominican migrant worker who met his mother picking blueberries in Cherryfield, got her pregnant, moved back to the D.R. to shack up with a local girl, and never looked back. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

There isn’t a principal alive who won’t find the time to talk to someone from the local newspaper. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the amendments to the state’s constitution, the punishment for possessing seditious writings, or for aiding and abetting a colored person, was left to the discretion of local authorities. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then I launched it with a slingshot through the window of our local police headquarters. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“They are unpatriotic, for this is a national not a local fair,” an editorial charged on August 11, 1893. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In spite of the fact that our volunteers were carefully screened before they were selected to defy, the police managed to penetrate not only our local branches but some of the batches of defiers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their campaign to “redeem” the South was reinforced by a resurgent Ku Klux Klan, which fought a terrorist campaign against Reconstruction governments and local leaders, complete with bombings, lynchings, and mob violence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Let’s find a local animal shelter to work with,” suggests Emily. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

He shakes his head and throws down a pie, obviously bought from a local service station. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Segregationists singled out Reverend Martin Luther King,Jr., branding him a “troublemaker,” an “outsider” who had come from Adanta to stir up local blacks. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Enfolded in them were mountains, and a river, and enough villages to make him a local government unto himself. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She loved it when she could communicate with the locals. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She explained: He’s the bishop of the local Mormon church, an LDS lay leader. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was only a matter of time before some of those bitterly , opposed to court-mandated desegregation were told by a local official that Hurd had an arrest record as long as a football field. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’ll be plenty of food there from local restaurants,” her mom said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

At the tournament in Savannah that the Fugees had raked leaves to attend, for example, locals who’d read about the team came to watch them play and to cheer them on. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

As a bureau report would put it, Hale “dominated local politics and seemingly could not be punished.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

"We've had other entries in other years that described businesses," said Jack Petrocini, president of the local chapter of the Rotary Club. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe six months after the PetSmart trip, I made a giddy incognito run to the local Target, dressed in a baseball cap and sunglasses. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

For now, he lives in a walk-up apartment in the suburbs with the mother of the second of his three children; she’s a housekeeper at the local YMCA. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was partly because of our complaining, and the desire to show us how the Spartan boy would have had his tonsils out, that Dad decided to have only a local anesthetic for his operation. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their armor was sculpted out of foil, Reynolds Wrap purchased at the local Acme supermarket. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The local roadside cafe, a gathering place for the segregationists, had a new sign. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thick rugs cover every floor, and paintings from several local artists she patronizes line our walls. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Instead, I asked, “Holly Paine, as a local business owner, would you be interested in participating in the first Celebrate Hope Springs Rally?” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Since funding for schools came from counties and local communities, blacks and Indians, who had been economically disadvantaged, could not offer the quality of education to their children that whites could. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Masons who worked on the courthouse downstate came back hungry, seamstresses returned from daywork for local white ladies and put on their nice dresses. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In the fourth millennium B.C. those local cultures expanded geographically and began to interact, compete with each other, and coalesce. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The suspect most locals considered the killer was a member of the junta. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

On the walls are clusters of local butterflies, mounted and framed, a map of the region on thin white paper, photographs of the family at the lake over the years. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Besides casualties,” said Adams, “we also got motorcycle accidents, women in labor, all kinds of stuff which happened to the locals.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Coach Mustilli said he wants me to start going to some local fencing competitions,” I announced. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I have a month's worth of local newspapers gathered up in my recycling bags, and I bet I could find five stories that read about the same. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

That was back when she used to work as a secretary at the local plumbing contractor’s office. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

These people partake of all the local facilities, the hospitals, the schools, police protection, welfare programs, and so far they do not pay taxes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The upcoming meeting would be particularly exciting for us because we had placed an article in the local newspaper about it. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The local writers complained that the Morrisons had to worry and deal with the stress that new publicity “could lead many people to think McMillian is innocent.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Schools, local governments, and private companies used it to fire, expel, or exclude anyone considered disloyal to the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Running the tunnels during the war presented yet another logistical challenge, as the local power company rationed electricity. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

At last, the world, the national, and the local pictures had been fused into one overwhelming drama of moral struggle in which everybody in the hall was participating. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane soars to the end of the valley, rises and turns elegantly, heading back toward the local airport to the west. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

We had to reconstruct an entire organization, from the smallest local branch to the national executive. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I planned a simple Sunday night dinner and bought the food at my local Whole Foods supermarket. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Their news of the world comes from the thin local paper Gerald brings back each day from the general store. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“All her marbles are loose,” the locals were fond of saying, “and you can hear them rattling when she walks around town at night.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Lander arrived—the most dignified and eloquent colored man any of them had seen—the discussions adopted a more local character. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She said that occasionally The FBI Story would air on local television, and she and her family would watch it and cry. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Normally an officer of his rank wouldn’t get involved in such a silly case, but the company building the pancake franchise had some clout with local politicians. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Mrs. Richardson managed to learn, through some artful questioning, that the address on file for Mia Wright had been a local one, with no parents listed. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In dozens of tiny local parishes throughout the archdiocese, priests preach and practice what Matthew said. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir. General Pettigrew claims he saw them yesterday afternoon. General Hill says he was, ah, overeager. General Hill says he expects no opposition but perhaps some local militia, with shotguns and such.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A familiar local habitation gave reality to all the mythical beings. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toward the end of high school, I landed a barista gig at a popular local cafe, and Kia came to work with me almost daily. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

None of the locals seemed to notice the huge Greek warship hovering over the piazza, or the fact that Jason and Leo had just flown down, Jason wielding a gold sword, and Leo...well, The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Amazed, bumbled by the beauty and devotion of this community to its local spirits. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Mr. Darcy drew his chair a little towards her, and said, “You cannot have a right to such very strong local attachment. You cannot have been always at Longbourn.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

She updated me on how everything was going back home and then shared a piece of strange local news. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She was the daughter of a local moneylender, and we talked of small things, briefly, before she moved on. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He ruled that the demonstrators had a legal and constitutional right to carry out that march, and that state and local officials were forbidden to interfere. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even these coordinates would not be of much use in describing the position of the sun in our galaxy or the position of our galaxy in the local group of galaxies. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Closer in, leaning against the fence with stoic faces was a mix of local coaches, involved fathers, skuzzy agent wannabes, scouts from prep schools and even colleges. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

This dramatic change in policy gave state and local police an enormous stake in the War on Drugs—not in its success, but in its perpetual existence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In these four areas the onset of food production provides little or no evidence for the domestication of local plant or animal species, but also little or no evidence for the replacement of human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“She will notify us if they or other local nongovernmental agencies dealing with displaced persons spot her.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Where the local broadband did get installed was in office buildings, which were already pretty well served by the old companies. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I wonder if the other networks are covering it,” she said, stopping on another local broadcast. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Some of them are for candidates in local elections. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The local prosecutor’s office was told that Wick was holding his phone at the time of the accident. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Secretary Stanton attempted to coordinate the efforts of the local police force, detectives, and the army. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

About how, since we only had an apartment, he'd spent all his spare time working at the local community garden, and how it had been named after him. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her father responded coldly to the “sudden” match, and when he later announced it in the local paper, he did not mention in print that William was Jewish. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

With a set of talent pipes I could support myself playing at local inns. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Over the years, it had taken hold at the grassroots, and in 1960 Levi was one of fifty thousand boys gearing up to compete in local races around the country. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

One local news crew was allowed to set up their camera equipment in our living room. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

After it sponsored a membership drive for the foundering local branch of the NAACP, the civil rights organization grew from 11 to nearly 2,000 members, making it the largest affiliate in the state. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Incensed local lawmakers responded with monuments to legislative creativity. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t like too many locals in their stores when they are trying to sell to tourists, and they hate children still in their school uniforms who aren’t going to buy anything at all. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Or the red shift might be a Doppler effect due not to the general expansion of the universe but rather to a more modest and local galactic explosion. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since there was no local product, I was free to go for the good Belgian stuff. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Evenings were often given over to discussions and meetings with local poets, painters, musicians, and writers of fiction, at which they praised or condemned other artists, scorned the marketplace and courted it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among Ann’s few comforts were her visits to a local church, the Jesus House of Prayer. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, before the Geek Club, Jesse had some ugly bouts with gangs and drugs, and several run-ins with local cops. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Quito, the visitors somehow provoked the locals and were chased out of town by a mob armed with stones. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

We’d aligned ourselves with different foundations and food suppliers to install six thousand salad bars in school cafeterias and were recruiting local chefs to help schools serve meals that were not just healthy but tasty. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Apparently men stationed in the barracks outside had tried to fight their way into the safe-room; local civilians had joined them, and in the battle grenades had been used. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He'd started the local community garden down the block and preserved his favorites in frames, decorating the deli's whitewashed walls with the brightest colors nature could provide. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She also urged interested citizens to come hear her speak the next day at the local Presbyterian church. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

They made arrangements for a notice to be published the following day in the local newspaper, the Seneca County Courier. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

From Thursday through Sunday, in the evenings, he goes to a local bar, a gray stucco building with plywood over the windows and a gravel parking lot. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

When they visited local families, they were often served food that both of them found unsavory, but they would go ahead and eat it. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Nhamo thought the old man would take her to the local graveyard, but he led her to his house. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first the silence continued, as though the local persons thought I intended to elaborate further. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight the dispatcher was reporting a couple of minor fender benders and a local boy who went missing on his bicycle during the electrical storm. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night the bhagat, the local healer, came and chanted over Hari while brushing him with the leaves of a neem tree to give him strength for our trip to Varanasi the following morning. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

So I visit the local shopping mall, which fortunately has its share of disease. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Another investigator then caught Davis taking a bribe from the head of a local gambling syndicate in exchange for letting him operate his illicit businesses. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He had been deported quickly, before local officials could take his testimony. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s a point of local architectural interest,” I said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Whenever Emmett heard that locals were planning to throw a “necktie party,” he would rush out to try to stop it. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

This one was a local, making all the stops. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“This, young Scarlett, is where we local historians come into our own. Leave it with me. I’ll find out everything I can and report back.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

And then there was the blood from “Mr. Green,” the local abattoir on First Avenue. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also watched for swamp lights, the weird lights that locals were always saying they saw in the swamps. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But a day or two later, Tom was hauled over by his lieutenant, who demanded to know why the crew were referring to the locals not as “Bennies” but as “Stills.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

At about ten fifteen the evening before, Faraday was on a local train platform. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The local girls whispered when I walked past, and once or twice I heard the word “root.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The coincidence of a marriage and then a divorce both occurring in cities named Moscow was ironic enough to make headlines in local newspapers. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing I couldn’t bring myself to destroy was the automaton, which I donated to the local museum. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

She rallies over a hundred volunteers, Rae and me included, to go around the city hand-delivering, you guessed it, hamburgers and donated blankets to the local homeless. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

A local news crew came out to interview me before the game. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

There, whole crowds of local inhabitants were gathered in the streets in terror, talking about this phenomenon. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d hacked her schedule from the local franchise’s Google calendar the night before. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

What characterises all these acts of communication is that the entities being addressed are local beings. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout the war, hundreds of Soviet night bomber regiments moved to follow the front line, as it skirted swamps or rough terrain, or bulged in one direction or another when there was a local victory. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He'd left Lynbrook for a program called "middle college," where high school seniors could take classes at the local community college, and his absence finally allowed me to focus on other guys. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The Citizens Councils found him worthy of their attention, after which he lost most of his local subscribers and ads. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bit about them basically says that local band Shooting Star is opening for Bikini on the Portland leg of Bikini’s national tour. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d given me straightforward directions that he simply hadn’t had time to explain: “The Old Man,” I realized, was what the locals called the bog boy, and his grave was the cairn. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It told of a “historical counterrevolutionary,” who as a local official before Liberation had killed two Communist guerrillas. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if my movie made it into thousands of people’s houses on local TV channels? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“So I hear you two are local stars. I’d love to have your autographs.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

At eight or nine digits, the local telephone number would exceed the human channel capacity: there would be many more wrong numbers. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earthquake report: TV weather guys feel some strange activity coming from a local school. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It was followed by Reagan’s National Security Decision Directive, which declared drugs a threat to U.S. national security, and provided for yet more cooperation between local, state, and federal law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Those self-important women gained local immortality for the blandest, the most timid of eccentricities—walking a cat on a dog’s lead, riding about on a man’s bike, being seen with a sandwich in the street. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The federalization of drug crime violated the conservative tenet of states’ rights and local control, as street crime was typically the responsibility of local law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This local form of tribalism that I observed as a boy was relatively harmless. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The justice system employed almost 2.4 million people in 2003—58 percent of them at the local level and 31 percent at the state level. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Sportiello, head of the local, thought maybe he should have advertised the fact that the union meeting would have free food. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A local species of squash provided small containers, as well as yielding edible seeds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In a nearby village I appeared for a local medicine man charged with witchcraft. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then at least I can go back to Jankburg with the confirmation that I shouldn’t even be dreaming this dream, and just weave myself firmly back into the tapestry of local boredom. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

All the local hotels and motels lit their “No Vacancies” neons. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

If science is largely culturally determined, then the now familiar conclusion follows: its procedures and conclusions will reflect a purely local consensus. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In fact, the Times reported that police departments had an extraordinary incentive to use their new equipment for drug enforcement: the extra federal funding the local police departments received was tied to antidrug policing. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The local people, young and old, heroes to us Beast Riders. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Despite our efforts to shoo them away, the local children spend hours staring at the bonobos and trying to get them to wake up. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I mean, technically yes, but I feel like a native already. The—uh—the A train was running local this morning, and it really ticked me off.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

All we face is a lot of peaceful mice and some local woodland creatures. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Although Corps members rarely participated in Klan demonstrations, Butler and some others once joined a delegation of local Klansmen on a trip to Richmond, Virginia, to protest school busing. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“William’s running for the local senate, Hilly. And he might not win.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

At about the same time, a local neighborhood organization set up by Operation Breakthrough also demanded that the landlord lower rents or fix the houses. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I was now competing in local and state meets against gymnasts who were much older and taller than me, I was starting to win medals regularly. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Since she’d become a citizen, my mom had voted in every election—local and federal. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He reached a large stream, of the kind the locals called a creek and pronounced crick, and decided to follow it. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

As a chief — or headman, as it was often known among the whites — my father was compelled to account for his stewardship not only to the Thembu king but to the local magistrate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s thus straightforward to review a region’s big mammals and to test whether the lack of mammal domestication in some regions was due to the unavailability of suitable wild species, rather than to local peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I ripped off my bonnet and pinafore and dress and threw myself into the water, casting terror into the hearts of the local tadpoles and turtles. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It’s a blind spot that baffles local and international human rights groups. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

That changed in the 1980s, when local law enforcement agencies suddenly had access to cash and military equipment specifically for the purpose of conducting drug raids. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Surrounding them in a hushed, solemn circle were reporters from television stations and radio stations and the two local papers. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The New York Amsterdam News, our local weekly Negro newspaper, suggested that the United States was now going to treat Negroes as equals for the first time. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

They focused on children to raise, households to run, church, clubs, and local community events. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

An examination was quietly begun by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency off the bank premises to preclude local panic. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But evidence does exist of a distinct pattern of intimidation and harassment of workers by company-hired gunmen, local law enforcement, and National Guard troops—with little or no redress for the victims. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The local sawbone doctor had patched me up as best he could, and, unfamiliar with the remarkable thickness of my skull, expressed serious doubts as to whether or not I would ever wake. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After those arrests, a local circuit court judge, James A. Hare, issued an injunction forbidding public gatherings of more than three people. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

A group of streets formed a zone directed by a chief steward, who was in turn responsible to the secretariat of the local branch of the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Psycholinguists call these local ambiguities “garden paths,” from the expression “to lead someone up the garden path,” that is, to mislead him. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They meet up at local pubs to have drinks and chat while they wait impatiently for the sun to set. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I need you two to stay up here. Coordinate with the locals. LeVisqueux is wanted in fourteen states. His capture remains a federal matter.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“The local news isn’t on yet. I’m watching CNN. They just showed London. The rally is already over there, but it looked huge.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

To step into a local market was to miss the savor of the peaches, figs, and winter chestnuts of Bursa. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Four hundred Customs and Border Protection agents and officers deputized for local law enforcement. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Small shops like Emco, often started by techs who bristle at the idea of working for big corporations, are magnets for local geeks. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cringed when he saw them pull a local shopkeeper out of his house and beat him. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

We were taking a local route through the neighborhoods of south Queens so that she could scout appearance locations for John Kwang. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m suddenly thinking of my art assignment, how I have to make a flyer for a local business. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Within days, she’d called several local community centers and found one that offered adult education classes, and signed up to take math and reading placement tests. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There were articles about him in the local papers. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I loved that we lived within rollerblading distance of a local Japanese market that sold candy with edible wrappers. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I was enchanted by the city, the warm tropical air, the diverse faces of the locals, the bright pastel colors covering many of the buildings, the swaying palm trees that flanked the streets. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

From Cape Town, I would be taken to a local airport and flown out of the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She read the local Culebra paper for news, but there was nothing. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Out on the streets the local Communists were celebrating the news of the Red invasion with a makeshift parade. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Established in 2001, the tortilla store is an innovative attempt to preserve one of earth's greatest cultural and biological assets: the many local varieties of maize in the narrow “waist” of southern Mexico. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The local news shows that other areas were hit harder by the storm. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

At the last minute, he had hedged, introducing himself as C. V. Anderson, vice president of the local Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Theo had not actually written the article on the local hero, but he had sharpened pencils for the reporter who did. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other donors to the Christian Union are members of local elites across the Bible Belt. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The elder Gross had been to a local chocolate maker. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

In Kanye, I was met by the local magistrate and a security man, both of whom were white. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in Alabama, Kennedy noted, “Governor Wallace has refused to respect either the law or the authority of local officials.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Poe won a short story contest and the prize was publication in a local paper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They weren’t likely to be instantly suspicious of strangers, but it was small enough that everyone knew by looking at you that you weren’t one of the locals. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

These men were appearing in films shown in the local theater, which was really just a thatch hut with wooden benches, a small television, and a VCR. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I was like a boy who worships a local soccer hero and is not interested in a national soccer star with whom he has no connection. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A group of these white-collar men sent a letter to the editor of a local newspaper, urging black workers to vote against the union. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Those imported domesticates may be thought of as “founder” crops and animals, because they founded local food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth imagined that most of the locals had gone on summer vacation, or were holed up at home taking a siesta. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She said the older kids would take them to local stores or sell the papers themselves. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early Sunday morning Geyer went to the police station and picked up a new local partner, Detective David Richards. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

State, local, and national media outlets were crowded outside the courthouse when I arrived the next morning. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Did buying local have to include the wine too? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He also imagined that the Moon had its inhabitants, well adapted to the inclemencies of the local environment. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But since it was past midnight, the kitchen was closed, so the trio repaired instead to an all-night local eatery on Sixth Avenue, the Waldorf Cafeteria—a Greenwich Village hangout for artists, writers, and roustabouts. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t tell if the train was an express, coming from the center track, or a local train, which would roar inches away from him. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

What she’d just said could have been her being a snob about his local school. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

And in the background, the constant, high, whining mewl of local disapproval. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked the provincial pace of the local train. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His parents, local store owners in Dearborn, Michigan, mourn him now as the hundred and twenty-fifth victim of the suicide attack. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He telegraphs a coded message back to Washington, stating that investigators have questioned local smugglers and learned that Booth and Herold have gone across the Potomac River. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It makes him smile: during one of their tournament prep sessions at her house, they’d taken a break to make a snack run to the local drugstore. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“The future of this favored section of Virginia is made,” crowed the local newspaper. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

No announcements precede it, no paper notices on downtown posts and billboards, no mentions or advertisements in local newspapers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Nobody I spoke with or watched on local television or heard on the radio talked of anything else. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brain processes pitch information both locally and globally, where local music refers to the intervals between pitches, while global processing refers to the entire contour of the melody. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

His mind slips to last fall and a writing course at the local community college. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He and I stayed glued to the local news, hoping to spot Mrs. at the campaign headquarters reveling in the victory. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It’s such a politically charged topic that even sympathetic pieces about people on death row usually triggered a local backlash that created more problems for the client and the case. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I know they’re harmless, but I have no choice! We have orders to round up all local Communists and Communist sympathizers. But it won’t be our problem much longer.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Ishmael Chambers, the local reporter, found that he was sweating, too. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I clicked one of the laptops to the local news links and found a short update on the Nicole Castro story, except it was hardly an update. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Birds don’t make the local papers very often.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The call center is a cross between a co-ed college frat house and a phone bank raising money for the local public TV station. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I have to go to the local courthouse and tell my version of what happened in the bank. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The museum is located in the main room of an old schoolhouse that the local historical society saved from the wrecker's ball by having it declared an historical landmark. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

It consisted of a kitchen and dining car, a sleeping car and two local coaches. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was this local guy, a professor at the University of Utah, who seemed to be an authority on the risks of texting while driving and talking on the phone while driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

A third of the students at the local elementary school skip lunch during Ramadan. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Theirs was the last house in the neighborhood to be built, but when they moved in the area was still so new that local maps showed it as woods. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Volpe likes him and is confident that Moore, whose son had been in theater at the local Catholic high school, values the drama program. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The kids have been hard at work promoting the event in hopes of rallying support for local businesses as the opening of the SmartMart Superstore nears. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that the universe is so uniform and homogeneous on a large scale, it contains local irregularities, such as stars and galaxies. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a few places it developed independently, as a result of local people domesticating local plants and animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess it’s everybody’s problem. It isn’t local. Would you have another cup of coffee and talk to me about it? I don’t have a position. I mean I want to hear.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a townsman suspected that the local miller was cheating him, he could take his flour to another mill. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Those advocating an African solution might profitably study the recent English efforts to establish a black colony in Sierra Leone, where most of the freed blacks died or were enslaved by the local African tribes. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Others required her to consult with local agents. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Some time after General Benedict Arnold took command in Philadelphia, he sent for Joseph Stansbury, a local merchant who was despised by Patriots. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among them all, Jinx was hailed as a local hero for coming up with the greatest scheme ever. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Or, as the woman who ran the local Hindu temple’s summer day camp liked to remind Aru: Don’t go outside without sunscreen or you’ll get darker and won’t find a husband! Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

On certain fortunate nights there were even places to go afterwards, and I scanned the bulletin boards eagerly for these meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous, these performances of Brigadoon by the local high school. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The Langley employees, and the locals, campaigned with all their might to keep their brainchild from leaving home. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The permeability of North Korea’s border tends to improve when border guards and local officials can accept bribes without draconian punishment from higher-ups. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They argued that there must have been something funny about the local Pepsi and Coke bottlers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“You need to be fifteen years old to purchase your own ticket,” the man says, looking above at a TV monitor of the local news. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Chandler was a brawler and bully, the local terror decent people crossed the street to avoid even when the rain made it a stew of mud. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Coach Hedge was entertaining a few locals with tap dancing and martial arts, occasionally singing into his megaphone, though nobody seemed to understand what he was saying. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I am virtually out of water, but the water Ti Jean and Farmer are carrying is unfiltered—they have both built up an immunity to local microorganisms—so they advise me not to drink it. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

There were local newspapers that she had sent him and a Alumnus Bulletin from Emporia State College. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crux of the fight was that the non-party members resented the excessive demands made upon the club by the local party authorities through the fraction. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day before the charrette opened, the Carolina Times ran an interview unprecedented for a black newspaper: a frank discussion with the head of the local Ku Klux Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Old Mose Wright, the kid’s uncle, complained that a couple local guys had been pickin’ on the boy, and he remembered that one of ’em’s name was R.C. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

For the Bedford-Stuyvesant gathering, Janice had already confirmed her plans with church representatives as well as the local Democratic district chairman, who would be on hand to “host” the gathering. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would talk the locals into racing their horses against his for side bets, with a forfeit fee of about $10. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was active in the local Masonic Lodge and was a member of several select social clubs. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nazi Party officials, local leaders, and their families would have priority passage on the departing ships. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And so he dictated elaborate and specific demands that it was then Lazlo’s duty to fulfill, with the help of a number of locals Suheyla organized to assist him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Because of Etienne being local, his family has to entertain his superiors pretty regularly, and of course the Nazis know the food is better on the farm than in town. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Boy! oh boy! oh boy!” read a local paper. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“You need to send scout ships out ahead to make local field surveys and find the best landing sites,” she says, without sitting up or even moving her head. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The local news crews are here, too, taping reports for their eleven o’clock broadcasts. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Baba was filling Thaya Jaan in on plans for the carnival and how he was inviting local churches, synagogues, temples, and interfaith organizations to attend. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He and his staff had picked out two local youths whom he hoped to send to the new medical school that Cuba was opening for Latin American students. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Now I have to call every local business and tell them about this scout. Stop him before he does his dirty work.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

In a moment of local love Dora named her place the Bear Flag Restaurant and the stories are many of people who have gone in for a sandwich. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white community was particularly rattled when they learned that the car driven by the young firebombers belonged to the local antipoverty agency—and was assigned to Howard Fuller. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

If the local horses were clearly inferior to his, he’d talk their owners into betting all of their cash. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A quick shot of local anesthetic, irrigate the wound, nine stitches, and I was done. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

My school championed the carnival planning, led by Ms. Holly, who formed committees of students and volunteers from the local synagogue and Emily’s church. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was an article from a local paper in northern Florida, talking about a word I had never heard before: gentrification. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But simply calling the Great Fire an accident did not satisfy some people, most notably the local newspapers. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Like other boys who don’t live nearby, Vincent boards with a local family. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

During the McMillian hearings, a local minister had held a regional church meeting about the case and had asked me to come speak. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She managed to glide to earth and made a crash landing on a hillside, where local people greeted her armed with pitchforks, sticks, and rifles—they’d thought her falling plane might be a German fighter. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

This fact results from local tastes and German government policies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Halfway across she ran into Joe Stevenson, a local businessman she knew casually. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1913, though women had not yet achieved the right to vote in federal elections, Illinois extended local suffrage to women. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The local “ground crew” set up our radio by attaching it to the poor Rosalie’s battery and sticking the antenna up a tree that conveniently hid the car from the air, as well. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Last year she joined the local auxiliary police out of some misplaced sense of civic duty. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tubes were tucked into individual slots inside small canvas pouches hand-sewn by a local Baltimore woman. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Republicans and Democrats alike had tackled the problem at state and local levels, investing in healthy living, building more sidewalks and community gardens—a proof point that there was common political ground to be explored. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Couples danced to the latest hits while fireworks exploded overhead, or they enjoyed light comedies performed by a local stock company, in a theater that served as a casino between productions. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s the problem. Everybody loves to shop there. All the local businesses will get shut out.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Ridgeway became a proper slave catcher after his first trip to New Jersey, when he went up to retrieve the property of a local planter. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I grew up with the Journal sitting on our kitchen table, open to the farm report or the local sports page. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

At first he had wanted to call it Zeus Pickles & Preserves, but that idea was vetoed because everybody said that Zeus was too obscure and had no local relevance, whereas Paradise did. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten seconds later, the local train flew by him. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Since there were several antique stores in the area to draw the buyers, the Professor seemed to do a fairly good business with out-of-town collectors; but his local trade was very small. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

High-pitched chatter greeted me as I entered the classroom at the local community college. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

For ten minutes or so, Mrs. Bradley rattled off statistics—local statistics—that surprised us all. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, the local Indians, numerous and well armed, killed eleven colonists and drove the rest back home within months. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"The crowd has spread into the parking lot. Same with the local church. I hear it's standing room only these days." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

After an hour or so of drinking, these two gentlemen decided they wished to go for an afternoon drive around the local villages - a motor car around this time still being something of a novelty. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nan came up with Relocation Rule Number 14: Blend in with the locals or stick out with the yokels. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

In a frantic voice she told him how local authorities had beaten her husband and he was dying. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

We were ushered into an office where Farmer introduced himself to a team of local doctors, including the father whose daughter had TB. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The locals had glanced at the six travelers when they first entered, but made no effort to lower their voices to keep their gossip private. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Which ones did they actually cultivate, and how did the resulting local crop package compare with the Fertile Crescent’s founder package? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were planning to volunteer at the local office, they said, and they’d try persuading a spouse or neighbor to come along, too. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In one South Dakota community, however, the local operator believed the Martians had invaded. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I’ll have some of my art on display, and hopefully we can get some other visual artists from local schools. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He had entered the country by way of Mexico, riding in a wagon drawn by a tobacco-chewing man who had turned out to be, in his spare time, the local judge. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There you go, little witches. That will explain everything you need to know about how your local government works,” Alaric said a little too loudly. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She asks his father about his research project in Cleveland, his mother about her part-time job at the local public library, which she’s recently begun. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He says he is not sensitive to class distinctions, but he admits he was bothered when some people mistook him for the caterer at fund-raising dinners for the local Greek church he helped build. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He attended productions at other local high schools and made friends and mentors of their drama directors. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

There would be s for women to reduce local maternal mortality. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe a police officer behind him, or an oncoming local train. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Knowing far more about local plants than all but a handful of modern professional botanists, they would hardly have failed to cultivate any useful wild plant species that was comparably suitable for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

By his own description he was “very local” and took great pride in never having ventured too far from Monroeville. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, the thing is, Artemis,” she said hesitantly, twisting a strand of blond hair in a way that several of the local louts considered extremely attractive. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I had no understanding of the local history at all. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Within a couple of centuries, the majority of the local megafauna was extinct, along with 60 per cent of all bird species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing like this has ever happened in our town before,” added George Rowley, owner of Chokecherry Real Estate and president of the local chamber of commerce. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

For with local accent will disappear local tempo. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a local level, terra preta is valuable enough for locals to dig it up and sell as potting soil, an activity that, alas, has already destroyed countless artifacts. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The week they’d arrived, Mia had gotten a job at Lucky Palace, a local Chinese restaurant; several afternoons and evenings a week, she took and packaged up takeout orders at the counter. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The local people who lived in the area did not like having the refugee camp nearby. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first one is what Mae’s son, John, said he was going to do—contact the local shelters. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

A catfish that has had a career as a local leader smells one way, but as soon as he is displaced in an administrative reorganization, he smells differently, and everyone recognizes the loss of standing. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It means ‘Waiter, bring me your local specialties,’” he said, going back to his sandwich. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The local landmark was located in the middle of the city, not far from her home downtown. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

We see locals working in the fields who straighten up to stare at us. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I got quotes on airline tickets, solicited local restaurants to donate gift certificates, and my hotel even offered two rooms if she accepted our invitation. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

McKissick told reporters that the sit-in was actually sponsored by several national and local civil rights and religious organizations. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

To help make ends meet, Johnny began hitching the horse to his toboggan and using them to make deliveries for the local grocery. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moore’s local doctor referred him to David Golde, a prominent cancer researcher at UCLA, who said that removing his spleen was the only way to go. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The venom-squirting ferocity of their attack gives rise to T. americana s local nickname: devil tree. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I thought of this book when Hugh and I attended the Festival of Saint Anne, a local fair held in a neighboring village, not far from our house in Normandy. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

According to local legend, the woods were crawling with snakes, raccoons, and wild boars. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Check your local library's recording section for music from Africa or Asia, or for the music of native Americans or Australians. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Wearing his blue Protestant suit, Lefty visited the local universities and colleges in person to inquire about the possibility of becoming a Greek instructor. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They built new airstrips as they needed them and lived with the local population or even in hastily dug trenches in the ground sheltered by tarpaulin sheets. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Reverend Leon L. Myers — pastor of the Anaheim Christian Church and founder of the local Men’s Bible Club — turned the Ku Klux Klan into one of the most powerful organizations in town. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

Countries would have to become counties—but counties which could keep their own culture and local laws. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washington preferred agents who “live with the other side; whose local circumstances, without subjecting them to suspicions, give them an opportunity of making observations.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The local magistrate, of course, was white, as was the nearest shopkeeper. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Cat food costs a lot of money,” I said, trying to remember if Auntie Braxton had ever been known to buy fish from a local waterman to feed to her cats. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

With Ronan on my heels, I run through several backyards and down Old Wharf Road to a tiny cafe behind the post office where the locals eat. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The police photographed applicants standing in the courthouse line, and when local newspapers published the photos, some people lost their jobs. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll be featuring some local teen poets who were part of the Poetry Out Loud summer workshops. So give ’em a round of applause, y’all.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

One of the few local documents to survive from this time, the so-called Constitution of Cyrene, prescribes the kind of political machinery one might expect in a wholly independent polis. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

She hired a local woman named Minnie whose sole job was washing the laboratory glassware using the only product Margaret would allow: Gold Dust Twins soap. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She later discovered that Mr. Fields had been hired from a museum in Boston to update the local practices. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Most of it he contributed anonymously to the monks of a local monastery—humble ascetics who had dedicated their lives to raising German police dogs. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

People from the local art community had come, along with classmates and friends. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Johnny saw him grinning sheepishly at him, hoping they might be friends—they, the only two local boys at the stable. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite their collective experience, Chestnut and Boynton failed to persuade local officials to release Walter and couldn't prevent his transfer to Holman. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s my understanding that people in this area have had...run-ins. With some of the local deputies.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Since I was doing so well with the saber, Coach Mustilli mentioned the idea of me entering some of the local and regional fencing competitions. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

On market days, traveling merchants and local farmers came from miles around, selling everything from bolts of cloth to scented soaps and balls of twine. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He could remember only the local dialect of his hometown of Speyer. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The answer is in the local struggle among contending rivals for leadership of the black masses, which are potentially the most volatile sub-group in America.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was worried that there might not be as many vacant publicars in the Chilargentine Region, especially this remote an area, but the Thunderhead was remarkable at projecting local need. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Many of the addresses were local, some were from the nearby cities of Raleigh and Greensboro, but many others were from small towns across the state: Mollie, Waxhaw, Piney Creek, Trotville. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I even went back to competing at some local and regional tournaments. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

That man was the local head of the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In a way, I wish I didn’t read about his jail term in the local paper. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

When my ambulance gets to the nearest hospital— not the one in my hometown but a small local place that looks more like an old-age home than a medical center—the medics rush me inside. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ann barely noticed their talk until the conversation drifted to the escalating local controversy over segregated buses. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I took the risk of talking to a few local lawyers about whether the new prosecutor might acknowledge that the conviction was unreliable and support a new trial if there was compelling new evidence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Cheer everyone up and remind them to shop local. You think your dad would go for it?” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

It’s not an insult—or at least I don’t think the locals mean it to be. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They are the eyes and ears of the Angkar at the local level. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the local public schools continue to fail the refugee population—and American students as well. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She does not believe the local lore: that “summer birds,” or butterflies, creep out from under the earth. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

One final manifestation: Before the advent of radio, TV, and film, musicians, athletes, etc., could develop loyal local audiences since they were the best that most of these people would ever see. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Members of a local secondary school marching band, wearing rented tuxedoes and vintage top hats, practised a piece of the Mozart requiem, and children were given bouquets of flowers to carry. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Even in the capital cities, the local masters were nothing. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Trina's father, Walter Garnett, was a former boxer whose failed career had turned him into a violent, abusive alcoholic well known to local police for throwing a punch with little provocation. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"The right to self-defense is protected under local and federal law. The tragic loss of one so young to violence renews our resolve to quell gang activity in Underhill." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Even so, he went to a phone booth, looked through the directory, and found the number to the local FBI. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

They were bringing back gangs of fans from the local soccer stadium. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

With fare like that, most locals shunned the place, leaving it for sailors who did not know any better. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Why, thank you, Holly. I was in the local paper once. I won a competition. Miss Sugar Beet Fair Nineteen Ninety-Nine.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

They performed in local parades, and they were looking for some baton twirlers to march in front of the band. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He accompanied him to the local hotel, where he waited with his whip in one hand and his cane in the other while Jean de Satigny packed his bags. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The local newspaper wrote an obituary, but made no mention of his experimental studies. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Exactly. We have to prepare ourselves, baby. That local news story may only be the start. I need you to stay low during all of this.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Laurencin had made a call to the local newspaper, and Mrs. Olinski and The Souls were featured above the fold on the first page of the metro section of the Epiphany Times. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our comparison begins with food production, a major determinant of local population size and societal complexity—hence an ultimate factor behind the conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

So, why do local people cut down the trees? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Well they were probably right about it being safer if you didn’t count the locals who were suddenly getting all Them and Us all over the place. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She handed out medicine to any of the local Africans, mostly fishermen, who were sick. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now, too late, she remembered the dire warnings the locals had given her. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They took prototypes of the Aeron to local companies in western Michigan and had people sit in them for at least half a day. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

She was a hard worker, modest, and a leader of the local Komsomol, a youth communist group. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Eliza Garfield recognized her son's intellectual curiosity, and she encouraged him to get more instruction than had been offered at the local schoolhouse. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

After he drove on, I felt sure he meant to imply that someone from out of town, not a local group, planned this. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emerging from their houses, locals found the land rolling in waves up to three feet high and opening up in fissures several feet deep. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“That may be true, Dan. But our local guy says he was not aware of that law.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve found some old books that belonged to my father and read local histories. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

There was another local affiliate directly in front of Moss, but the reporter, a short man with close-cropped brown hair, never once looked at him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Checking the time stamp on the image, she saw it was from noon local time. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The local authorities, after the armistice of Neerlandia, were mayors without initiative, decorative judges picked from among the peaceful and tired Conservatives of Macondo. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The grisly murder of a popular local official—the assistant mayor had been beheaded and his body tossed in the Artibonite River—was making life even more complicated for Captain Carroll. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Our storm must have been local, there had been no rain here. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I was in the Gombe area for one of our Wildlife Awareness Weeks, showing the local people some of the wonders of chimpanzee life. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ellis died on November 3, 2005, a memorial service was held for family members at a local funeral home. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Most of our recruits were ANC members who were active in the local branches, but we found that once they were working for MK, they stopped doing the local work they had been performing before. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nina was sent out to chat up the locals and try to discover the best place to lay their ambush for the wagon. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The result was again the start of farming dependent on crops from elsewhere, a failure to domesticate local species, and a massive modern replacement of human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Kerry the avowed left-winger who decided to protest the Iraq war by getting a bunch of guys to dress up in drag and go down to the local army recruiting office to enlist. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father was an unofficial priest and presided over ritual slaughtering of goats and calves and officiated at local traditional rites concerning planting, harvest, birth, marriage, initiation ceremonies, and funerals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The jumbo aluminum tray of veggie samosas Mama bought from the gray-haired man who owns our local Indian grocery store is almost empty. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

They began selling the game on the software rack at their local computer store. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He told me that he had defied during the 1952 Defiance Campaign and had served on various local committees in Port Elizabeth. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And local bondsmen such as Maurice Ryles and Warren King, both of whom lived on my street, assumed responsibility for a number of people who couldn’t afford to get out. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When he came home that time, the city patrols did a routine inspection of our house, then dragged Dad off to the local police headquarters for questioning. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It’s a banner headline in the Star Tribune: 1,450 hotel workers, members of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union, strike nine local hotels. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The local police department’s call database for August 17 lists an unfounded complaint about a Windsurfer in the vicinity. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was in fact crying now, but in a very local sort of way, as it were; there were tears but no sounds. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The 1st shows 3 girls in matching shirts bringing Legos to a local children’s hospital. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some local education agencies currently offer a full, balanced education that includes rich and varied arts opportunities for their students. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It comes from a weekly feature in a local tabloid, The Cape Codder, called “Ask the Bird Folks.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Inside, the spectators’ gallery was full, and it was standing room only for the local and foreign press. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the trial’s last session found a fair segment of the local Establishment seated alongside the plainer citizenry. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hence these local failures or limitations of food production cannot be attributed to competition from bountiful hunting opportunities. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Worse, she’s taken up ice dancing; she goes to classes at the local indoor rink, and tangos and waltzes in time to tinny music, holding hands with other women. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

At one point, she had a local restaurant drop off daily dinners for her teenage son, just to be sure he got fed. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The one we get on must be the local, because it stops at practically every floor. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

One night he was spotted dining with Gregory Kheifetz, the local Soviet vice-consul, whom he had met at a party at the home of the violinist Isaac Stern. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As head of the local Klan, C.P. worked with many of the leading racists in the region. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Esteban Trueba, ever fearful of public ridicule, opted for a solution that would not provide material for malicious tongues, because he knew that his wife’s strange behavior was the target of local gossips. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It used to be a local bank. It was bought out a few years ago. All the accounts were transferred over to Spirit of Independence Bank.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When they reached Phillips County, the Mississippians joined the local posse and continued their rampage. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

A local tribe served as wardens to keep the bonobos safe from hunters, in return receiving funding for a local school and clinic. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Through experience, they learned what combinations of local foods made them healthy. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The rapid spread of microbes, and the rapid course of symptoms, mean that everybody in a local human population is quickly infected and soon thereafter is either dead or else recovered and immune. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He stuffs twenty-five pieces of her jewelry into a plastic bag and hides it under a rock near the local lumberyard. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Fish that were local in their ambit made the net their neighbourhood, and the quick ones, the ones that tended to streak by, the dorados, slowed down to visit the new development. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They bypassed quiet residential neighborhoods and a shuttered local vegetable market. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

A man at the bar told Ellsberg that when his trial began, local bookmakers had set the odds at four-to-one in favor of the prosecution. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The local militia and Federal troops were called in to quell this unplanned and unrehearsed insurrection. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The barbershop, a food market, and the local movie theater have all closed in recent years. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He was found not guilty, but I suspect that the local people attributed this not to my skill as a lawyer, but to the power of the medicine man’s herbs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When all my friends were getting Pound Puppies and She-Ra figurines, my mom had wrapped up place mats and umbrellas that I recognized from our local drugstore. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He read many books, played bridge, played tennis, and boxed at a local gymnasium. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

With the protection of federal troops, African Americans began to vote in large numbers and seize control, in some areas, of the local political apparatus. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When he asked the local investigators to explain the contradictory evidence we had presented, he wasn't impressed with what he heard. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Every town of a few thousand people has its station, and it takes the place of the old local newspaper. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

His personal charisma and innovative strategies won many battles, but as early as the fall of 1965 Fuller had already realized the need for a new organization, one less hamstrung by federal and local bureaucracies. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Professor still stubbornly opened his store every day, but now he had almost no local trade. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spoke at local meetings and tried to sensitize people to the need to insist on accountability from law enforcement. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Speaking of life support, the rover switched over to the local tanks when the valves shut. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. And I can’t believe the A train is running local today,” I say, trying out Libby’s catchphrase on my first adult. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Not far into the ride, he saw the local mailman in front of a house. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

After dinner Dad flipped on the TV so we could all watch the local news. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of angles to play, he gave up a name of a local gambler. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When we make first contact with the aliens in other universes and jabber at them in our local code, they cannot understand us without a sci-fi Universal Translator. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Dead rabbits, muskrats, opossums, and fish were also found in numbers, and one of the local schools made the collection of insecticide-poisoned birds a science project. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Chief Mpondombini greeted us warmly and we explained that we needed the requisite travel documents from the local magistrate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My siblings and I began singing at local churches. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I think of Flaubert, who spent most of his adult life in the same French village, or Emily Dickinson, whose poems echoed the cadence of the local church bells. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a member of the Advisory Board in the Western Native Township, an elected body of four local people who dealt with the authorities on matters relating to the townships. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In all such local tragedies time works like a damp brush on water color. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She’d wanted to go to a local showing of the documentary Bridegroom instead. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

We went to every local farm and vendor and ordered all kinds of fresh ingredients. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We met with the district attorney, filed papers with the judge, and consulted with a variety of local officials in an effort to achieve a new, constitutionally acceptable sentence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It’s from the local stockyards, and is repulsive—smelly, bloody, and charred. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Ophelia worked on gathering data, which meant walking from village to village, sometimes with Farmer, other times with local youths he’d recruited. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

So I put on what I take to be a respectable-looking outfit of ironed Bermuda shorts and scooped-neck T-shirt and set out for a tour of the local hotels and supermarkets. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chicago companies slaughtered and packaged only enough meat to satisfy the needs of local residents. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t help that our local paper, the Shadbush County Daily, does a whole spread on the swastika thing. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Taken at a ceremony in 1924, it was a panoramic view of members of the tribe alongside prominent local white businessmen and leaders. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They were old and weather-beaten local faces, lined and brown and composed harshly, tight-lipped, unforgiving, determined that he should do this thing. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re lucky to have the jerseys at all, considering each side just flogged them one year from one of the real local clubs or took the discarded ones. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It’s like Nazi contempt for the Occupied country taken to extremes—as though they welcome the locals to come and ransack their own heritage so no one else need bother. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

There are a thousand tiny beer companies in Germany, shielded from competition with one another because each German brewery has virtually a local monopoly, and they are also shielded from competition with imports. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He did attend a prizefight one night and went to a local nightclub a few times, but his heart and interest weren’t in it. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When a group of Europeans offered to overthrow the demon in exchange for a claim to the lands it haunted, the incredulous local leaders consented. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

China’s size and ecological diversity spawned many separate local cultures, distinguishable archaeologically by their differing styles of pottery and artifacts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was placed in a local hospice program. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ti Jean is also one of Farmer’s chief informants on local beliefs. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

These new Indian hires had accounting backgrounds and were trained by Reuters, but they were paid standard local wages and vacation and health benefits. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

In addition to Sammy and me, Uncle was bringing his family, my friend Silly, and his friend Jedda-Boy, a local land surveyor. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He sees his farm as part of a local food economy. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I would like to help in that area of research, and in the search for radioisotopes that may be used in local cortical control, but I know now that I won’t have the time. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was takeout from a local chicken place; Mom had grabbed the food on her way home from work. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“No. He came back about a week later. He must have gotten what he wanted because this time he wasn’t looking for books about viruses. He was interested in local affairs.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The chaos that would inevitably have delayed such a march with a hastily assembled host of household knights and local levies had been nowhere in evidence. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The chamber of commerce is also sponsoring a quilt competition with a grand prize of five hundred dollars contributed by local businesses. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The revolts in the West Indies and disquieting incidents closer to home worried the local planters. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Awed by its magnificence, fearful of the supernatural powers controlled by its priesthood, local rulers subordinated themselves. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Suffice it to say the British expedition met with resistance at Lexington, and fired upon the local militia. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A man identified himself as a reporter with a local newspaper. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The group then advertised in the local papers for volunteers, men who would agree to participate in the experiment. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were standing outside the post office when the local magistrate, a white man in his sixties, approached Paul and asked him to go inside to buy him some postage stamps. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He borrowed a canoe from a local fisherman and paddled it back across the reservoir. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

At 8:30 I appeared before the local magistrate and was formally remanded to Johannesburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My authentic Chinese face got me in the door. South Pacific, a local production. You know, ‘Happy talk, keep talkin’, happy talk.’ Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am on the phone with Jerri Sparks, the reporter from the local paper, who wants to send someone out to take my picture. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Thus, New Guineans have had ample opportunity to get to know their local flora and fauna. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He paid us a very good price, and with that money we hired a car to take us to the local train station where we would catch a train to Johannesburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ceremony itself was at a local church, after which we celebrated at the home of Winnie’s eldest brother, which was the ancestral home of the Madikizela clan. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His business interests now dominated the county, and he had become a powerful local advocate for law and order—for the protection of what he called “God-fearing souls.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The secretary of the local branch would find that certain men were no longer attending meetings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The news spread quickly, first to local media, then national, then international. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Despite the money to be made, some shop owners and other locals miss the way the island used to be. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The M-Plan was designed to allow the organization to recruit new members, respond to local and national problems, and maintain regular contact between the membership and the underground leadership. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The train is going local since it’s Saturday, which means we might be sitting tight for thirty minutes. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Still the cars kept coming, snarling every local road for the entire day. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, he’s real nice,” said Seven of their local witch doctor. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

For a moment, I took him for a vagrant, but then I saw he was just some local fellow enjoying the fresh air and summer sunshine, and saw no reason not to comply. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I kick a soccer ball around with Marv at the local grounds on Thursday night and watch him get drunk afterward at his place. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The press, the local TV crews, the family, everyone. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But being a specialized group, leading special lives, associating only with their own kind, they would have made it possible for me to cross the country without talking to a local town-bound man. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

At issue, he said, was local control and the right of a school system to determine in good faith the grade of a student without interference from anyone else. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would make his living during his travels by finding the local champion wherever he happened to be, and they would duel, and Inigo would disarm him and accept whatever they happened to bet. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The last time it had broadcast a local event live at such an hour had been when a little girl named Jessica McClure was rescued from an abandoned well. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They use local children as lookouts, who race forward on their bicycles to tell the bandits when migrants are drawing near. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The bill created dozens of new federal capital crimes, mandated life sentences for some “three-strikers,” and authorized more than $16 billion for state prison grants and expansion of state and local police forces. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The local girls, bareheaded, were walking arm in arm. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“A group of local citizens who love libraries and consider Mr. Luigi L. Lemoncello to be a threat to all that we hold dear.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

A local radio station had a promotional broadcast once a week from a car lot that we passed on our way to school. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But, given the number of people present during the autopsy—including the local lawmen, the undertaker, and Mathis, the Big Hill Trading Company owner—it seemed impossible to say who the culprit was. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A local judge had issued a court order putting an end to the demonstrations, and for a time the city was quiet. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The answer, of course, is the letter ‘M,’” Diane told local TV reporters. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

According to reports from a local sportsmen’s club, the bird population within the treated area was “virtually wiped out.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The meeting between the highest local government official and militant black leaders was itself an important concession, an act of good faith on Grabarek’s part that surprised the black community. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The local people who are ill like me indeed tell me the truth. You can live to be old or young, but you’ll always have moments when you lose your head.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The gypsy moth program shows what a vast amount of damage can be done when reckless large-scale treatment is substituted for local and moderate control. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It seems they left town after four-thirty, since the truck that preceded them up the mountain clocked out of the local Public Works building at four thirty-five. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We also put a call out to local high schools for students who want to submit work. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The man, who was armed with a .44-caliber, snub-nosed English Bulldog, was named A. W. Comstock, and he was a local attorney and the guardian of several Osage Indians. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When local conditions deteriorated, Aborigines simply moved to an area where conditions were temporarily better. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Friday nights were college nights at Club Victor, which meant no cover charge and a chance to dance to the offerings of a local bandmaster, Vic Meyers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They wanted people to be able to buy their food from local farmers instead of from big corporations. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

This example from the Jordan Valley, like that from Tell Abu Hureyra, illustrates that the first farmers used their detailed knowledge of local species to their own benefit. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

No one noticed the ghost, but the locals looked askance at Nico. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But then, this past September, Susan had transferred from the local school to the vaster, supposedly superior one in Garden City. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drove through Turner Station to the parking lot of the local public library. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“All those pageants — local, city, state. The car rides with my hair in rollers,” Shanti echoed. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I chose instead the local secondary school, and as it turned out, that may have been the most important decision of my life: Alexandra Secondary School had a tennis team. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often he discovered that local people were not aware of the trail’s existence or, if they knew of it, were amazed to be told that it ran all the way from Georgia to Maine. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

In any case, my story so far invites a more local history. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As the marines walked, dripping, onto the sand, local schoolgirls stepped forward and placed garlands of red and yellow flowers over their necks. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When he came upon a town, he would have known exactly whose door to knock on, who the local militia leader was, who the key players in town were. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A local newspaper had printed a photograph of Cassius and me together at the United Nations. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the local kids went with them; others went along on the hike. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Our families, friends, and local chiefs gathered for speeches, songs, and gift-giving. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He meets the local villagers and discovers that an evil man with a machine gun has enslaved them, forcing them to grow poppy flowers that he turns into drugs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

While we ate hot oatmeal and sliced bananas, a truck from a local store pulled up and dropped off loaves of bread and crates of orange juice. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Charlie charged the locals a fair price, and charged the brothers even less. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The winner of that final set of quiz questions will be declared our local elementary-school-level champion and will proceed to the nationals in Washington. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Most of the time, when the Colts were at work protecting their turf, the local cops looked the other way. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

To downplay accusations of being an outside agitator, she ran her operation out of her hotel room, offering direction to state and local suffragists. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The other thing about school that's different after Christmas vacation is how jealous everybody is that we got our pictures in the paper and on the local TV. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

In many parts of Latin America there is a resentment, abundantly justified, of U.S. workers with big budgets swooping in to profit from the work of poor local scholars. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She ran her finger down the names, selected one that sounded local and reached into her pocket for change. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had spent a lot of time in local communities, mostly in the favelas outside Sao Paulo, where I met hundreds of desperately poor people who were intensely interested in talking. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I searched for his name online. I searched every day for it and it never came up, except in a local paper, next to a photograph. He won a poetry contest.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But upon close inspection, the information invariably traced back to the same dubious sources: private eyes and local lawmen, whose opinions were based on little more than hearsay. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He’s most likely robbing the bank as a payback on the world for winning the ugliness prize at his local fete three years running. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Poe won a short story contest and the prize was publication in a local paper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Some of my teammates did the local competition circuit, but I wasn’t sure I was ready so soon after switching to saber. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

We took the local down to 96th Street, and I told Frank to walk ahead. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Alternative treatments with baking soda and milk did not help, and so, despite Elizabeth’s assurance that nothing was wrong, I showed up at the ice-cold Trinity Street surgery of a local doctor. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Juliet scowled—something else that the local louts found very endearing. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

What brings this on is something that happened to me at the local supermarket today. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

My grandfather or kamor—teacher, as everyone called him—was a well-known local Arabic scholar and healer in the village and beyond. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But all these were minor league teams that played only in local and regional contests. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When the Michigan state police raided an illegal Detroit bar, they discovered the local congressman, the local sheriff, and the city’s mayor all having a drink. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She neatly lines up little bags of beans, sugar, and laundry soap—items a local grocery store donates because the packages are damaged and cannot be sold. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Their trailer became the local hangout because there was no adult supervision. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“There’s a list of all the local art events inside. There’s a student gallery coming up if you want to check it out.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There, the local ground crew discovered Zhenya’s body trapped in her Yak. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

And even then, very rarely did you meet a local crazy enough to go through what you had to go through to harvest a skinny little fish from one of those narrow streams. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The manager of a local hotel came to fetch us armed with rifles and reported that he had been delayed by a herd of rogue elephants. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although she applied to local flight schools, she was turned down due to her age—so she took up parachute training. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

I would go directly to the head of the local Communist party and have it out with him, talk to him, explain things. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

With all of this went the demoralizing effect of an unsuccessful war and the extraordinary challenges associated with rebuilding new state and local governments. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Evelyn Smith, Walter's sister, was a local minister, and she and her family occasionally raised money for the church by selling food on the roadside. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Because the victims were black and poor, this wasn't the kind of case that would usually be prosecuted as a capital crime, but Herbert wasn't local. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Sisulu’s name was becoming prominent as both a businessman and a local leader. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s local history,” said Scarlett, nodding, proud that she hadn’t actually lied. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

In front of the sink he built a small bar out of discarded lumber and covered it with scavenged tiles: blue- and-white arabesques; Neapolitan checkerboard; red heraldic dragons; and local, earth-tone Pewabics. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When Lewis Hicks could not hire enough local strikebreakers, he went south, offering jobs to people who didn’t know what it was like in the Black Valley. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

A little later the local boys went by, hair greased back, red ties, tight-fitting jackets, with embroidered pocket handkerchiefs and square-toed shoes. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

In some areas the original local domesticates were retained alongside the far more productive Mexican trinity, but in other areas the trinity replaced them completely. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was concerned about the inability of people in the local community to get a fair picture of what was going on. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But often there was truth at the heart of local legends—people who had been born with gifts that their countries didn’t understand. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As Table 7.1 summarizes, the domestication of local cereal / pulse combinations launched food production in many areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We camped out in the woods, a hundred yards from the main road, in a marshy clearing that local kids had obviously been using for parties. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Her only relative was a niece in Boston, who arranged for a local lawyer to liquidate Mrs. Garner’s property. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, I work at the local NBC station,” said an Indian woman off stage left, her hand in the air. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He had telephoned the national headquarters of Howard Johnson’s and had asked them to “encourage” the local franchise to desegregate. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

So as we walked home I said in a small voice that I didn’t want to play in the local tournament. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead he’s busy making a name for himself as a local deejay. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Having once been an ambitious young lady myself however, I’ve decided to offer you some advice: go to your local newspaper and get an entry-leveljob. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The local press in Monroe County and Mobile had demonized Walter and had defiantly maintained that his conviction was reliable and his execution necessary. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

One, headed by Benjamin Rush, believed they were facing yellow fever and that it had a local cause—the stagnant, foul-smelling air that had infested Philadelphia all summer. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Her words summoned awful powers from the familiar and picturesque local town. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The boss of a local New York street gang had put out a $2,500 bounty on one of his members, and I’d seen it as a brief mention in some online forum. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He didn’t trust books in his study of anthropology; he wanted to hear what locals had to say about their lives. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t have anything to do with points of local architectural interest.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Instead, George followed Kelly into the main room of the apartment and over to the fridge, where Kelly poured juice into two plastic cups that had come from a local barbecue shack. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Because there he was, plastered across the screen, spewing about his upcoming series on the local guys who were headed to the Gulf. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

If radioactive fallout started spreading through the sky, it would be Hall’s job to help evacuate people from local farms and villages. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I collected ribbons of bark from local palm trees, then got a couple of sticks and rubbed them together to create enough friction to . The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was also spoken for, the steady girlfriend of a local physician. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a local tourist shop, he had bought three sets of fresh clothes, some towels, some soap, some bottled water, and, yes, a huge box of wet wipes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

We were working with the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana, and their lawyer Carol Kolinchak had agreed to be our local counsel in all of the Louisiana cases. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He’s been seen at his hotel and at a few local restaurants, and his rental car has been spotted around the area. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He was more of a legend in the local fencing community. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Indians adopted Mexican crops, and many of them discarded many of their local domesticates, piecemeal; squash was domesticated independently, corn arrived from Mexico around A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They had even set up checkpoints at the local bus and railway stations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew her name and saw her on the local news. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“It must just be some local fisherman out for a pleasure cruise alone at night through shark-infested waters.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Awesome news alert: I met this really cool guy Pete at the local pool. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

If local food chains are going to succeed, customers will have to get used to eating that way again. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She was like an East German swimmer at a local competition. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead loomed the high brick walls of the local brewery. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dad had been a local captain in the Black Panther Party. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Though Nye planned to interview these relatives, and anyone else who might have knowledge of the suspect’s whereabouts, his main objective was to obtain the aid of the local law agencies. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

A staunch Republican, he was also elected to local office. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In her view, monumental buildings implied a large resident population, but again there were plenty of anchovy bones and little evidence that locals farmed anything but cotton. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

By eight, three local reporters had arrived, armed with microphones and fancy equipment. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then she picked up the telephone, and she opened the phone book and telephoned the local police station. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

If the experts are in Philly, these local doctors are probably wrong pretty often. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess that’s okay . . .” “1 assume,” the agent said, “that this is going to be handled basically as a local thing—?” Bruno Martinez nodded. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rushed to the washroom on the seventh floor, sadly in a removed area of the building without a local fire escape, sealing his fate in a stall idled with his own anxious stench. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Once there got to be too many bonobos, she hired local women to be full-time ape mothers. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The day after graduation I went right back into school at the local community college. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or were barley and emmer wheat actually the best of the local wild cereals that they could have selected? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Basically, the answer is the same two reasons: local taste and government policies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever the local gang members came close enough to look in Percy’s eyes, they quickly veered away. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

News reporters called Pinyudu a “camp,” but it was just a big, open place with no houses except a few belonging to the local Anyuak people. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a union organized to represent black workers there, local black professional men sought to prevent the move, which they said would hurt race and labor relations. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But an important question concerns the possible significance of local cultural factors unrelated to the environment. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We use her phone to check the local flights to Hawaii, and when we’re sure there’s no way Michael’s family can get him on a plane, Rhiannon drives me home. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

A few locals, fishermen and their wives, stood around, watching. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Anderson knew next to nothing about the Fugees when they showed up, but at a glance, he assumed they were a notch above the typical local team. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

One of the local pilots told her that her commander had been killed, and she reacted with complete disbelief. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Gemini 10 had felt like a small local event compared to Apollo 11. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On February 8, state and local police, erroneously believing that one of their officers had been shot by demonstrators, let loose a fusillade into a crowd of students gathered in front of a dormitory. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He thought the American government’s plan to stabilize the local economy might help the wealthy business class, but it would do nothing to ease the suffering of the vast majority of people. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It might have been due to nasty natives, an inclement climate, or unfamiliar local parasites. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he followed my father to the living room, where the television was timed to the local news. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Anthony turned the fund-raising task over to a group of local women who raised $42,000, but then they stopped collecting money, as if they had reached their goal. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

They were heading to the local jail to protest the arrest earlier that day of a civil rights worker. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the local restaurants are sending over snacks and drinks. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

An assistant attorney general then presented the State's arguments—capital cases on appeal were managed by the attorney general, not the local district attorney. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s too dangerous. And local groups can only do so much.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He taught Sunday school at a local Episcopal church. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

To bathe, we put water in a bucket and splashed ourselves with it, using soap we bought from local vendors via the kids on bikes. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She said a local gallery in Rochester, called the Visual Studies Workshop, had been showing photography from genocides around the world, and perhaps we could do an exhibit there. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

To compensate for my youth on campus, I wear old gray sweatshirts and box in a local gym and walk around with an unlit cigarette in my mouth, even though I do not smoke. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The local racetrackers grew fond of the odd, bookish boy, nicknaming him Red, and a few let him ride their horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is a demolition expert and the Barracks was the local name for Barrington Heights, the tallest tower block in our South London borough. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, with no explanation, Ian Rider had taken him to a local club for his first lesson and he had been going there, once a week, ever since. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The only exception is for those jobs for which state or local laws expressly bar people with certain specific convictions from employment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

One Monday morning I took our local phone book and selected the names of ten major companies. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then he negotiated a fare with a carriage driver outside the station to take him to the local cemetery when he was finished with Garfield. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

As a result, the Inka were almost forced to co-opt local rulers instead of displacing them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“And besides, it’s not like we’re going to Hollywood. This is for a youth filmmaking festival. It’s small and local and people would love this story.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

One of the local theaters put show cards in the window of his bakery and gave his father free passes. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

But he had stayed in the village; and his wine was good, so the locals agreed. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

No area had all 13, and some of the wild ancestors were quite local, such as the yak, confined in the wild to Tibet and adjacent highland areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

That why he worked so many odd jobs—shoe shiner during the day, busboy at one of the local bars at night, and even a janitor at Mount Carmel. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I know I should probably hate that about interstates and yearn for the halcyon days of yore, back when you could be drenched in local color at every turn— but whatever. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Half of them were local workers; Peru has so many ruins from so many cultures that in many small towns archaeological labor is a flourishing blue-collar trade. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

This time, the get-out-of-town threats came from a local hate society called The Black Legion. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got to steps of the library, the official program began, and I received a handful of official awards and proclamations from various city officials as well as artwork and letters from local artists. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Him and me had our first date over the weekend and, as far as Janelle’s concerned, it’s the biggest news since we all had our pictures splashed across the local paper. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had seen the local news broadcast of Zeitoun in his canoe. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Against the refrigerator is a picture of himself and his mother and Sonia, behind a magnet from a local bank. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that Burt had been with Bigheart around the time he succumbed to apparent poisoning—a local lawman had noted that Burt and Hale had both visited with Bigheart shortly before he died. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

St Emilion is now secure under his patronage, and the convent prospers as a result of my commerce with the local merchants and farmers, so Mother Ermentrude and the bishop are pleased. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They are making the word local just as powerful as the word organic. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The North Korean government had decided that the camp, with its high-voltage fence and factories that churned out military uniforms, glassware, and cement, needed a reliable local source of electricity, and fast. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Those machines, like a lot of things required by the USDA, are way too expensive for a small, local meat processor. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the local Masai people knew the Marburg agent in their own way. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The latest outbreak was allegedly the result of human waste contaminating a local water supply in the central plateau. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Teaching the surgery to local doctors and offering its gift to the colored population was part of the reason he was hired. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I missed my union local,” I told him. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a ritual all the local Japanese mothers performed the day before they sent their daughters off to school for the first time. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

In August 1859, the local Republican Party asked him to run for Ohio State Senate. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

On the immediate local front, reports showed that rental rates for apartments in Odessa had dropped 10 percent and occupancy rates 8 percent, boding disaster for a market that was woefully overbuilt from the boom. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jamison was present, Martin told Cora, in his capacities as a senator and local planter. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The crime was sensationalized by the local media, which lauded the police and prosecutor for coming to the aid of a defenseless infant. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The headlines told of a decision by the Board of Aldermen, after four months deliberation, that the local budget could not afford traffic lights at certain dangerous intersections of the town. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There are about seventy thousand accounting grads in India each year, he added, many of whom go to work for local Indian firms starting at $100 a month. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Myers insisted that there were other people besides him and Kelly involved in the Pittman murder, including a corrupt local sheriff. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Since the dawn of the OASIS, thousands of elderly users had come here and painstakingly coded virtual replicas of local arcades they remembered from their childhood, thus making them a permanent part of the museum. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

That’s an idea that came to her a week or so earlier when she’d gotten a visit from a local sheriff, Sergeant Tony Hudson. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He indicated that Burt had been involved in Vaughan’s killing and that a mayor of one of the boomtowns—a local tough—had helped Burt throw Vaughan off the train. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Instead, he has chosen the roof of the mausoleum, a one- room crypt holding the remains of four members of the Conchalitos family, the owners of a local restaurant. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The emissary and his entourage spent the night at the home of the local government official. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

This revision marks the first, local triumph of the new. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then he’d driven the Crown Vic ten minutes to the Cache County Sheriffs Office, a new building that housed the local law enforcement, and was next to the jail. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

His father had hoped to teach at the local community college, but there just wasn’t an opening in the agriculture department. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She belonged to I don’t know how many different clubs; she was a leading light of local so-called ‘ ‘black society. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was for the same reason, he said, that miners were often paid entirely with two-dollar bills, so that local merchants would realize how important the coal companies were to their businesses. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Carroll advised him that he had some sick prisoners the local hospital refused to treat, so he had ended up buying the medicine himself. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Nelson is super-duper crabby,” Laney reported, thinking about the guy who manned the booth at their local subway station. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A meeting of the local defense commission was called promptly by Richard A. Blackington, local defense commissioner, at the Masons’ lodge yesterday afternoon and attended by all defense commission lieutenants. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The demands of the local party authorities for money, speakers, and poster painters were so great that the publication of Left Front was in danger. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My friend looked at me with a mixture of consternation and con-fusion as they led him away to the local police station. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ti Jean, who has learned something about medicine and gives a portion of his paycheck to destitute patients, is also Paul’s main local male confidant—“my chief of staff,” Farmer calls him. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

On the way to Kapoeta, she had traded something—I don’t know what—to one of the local tribes for a big chicken. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often in the pay of local political bosses, they had no national reach. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

After speaking with Darnell, I thought about refiling his assertions before the case went up on appeal and maybe, just maybe, we could persuade local officials to retreat from the case against Walter. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As the local wisdom went: God is far up high, and the tsar is far away. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

You’d walk down McDowell Street, and half the people you passed seemed to be nursing an injury sustained in local combat. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dad had felt wonderful while under the local anesthetic. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told me all the local and world news, and it was rather pleasant to hear about the National League, an atom bomb test, and a Mr. Riley’s three-legged dog that chased her chickens. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a fall sport, so they were done, but Ivy was pretty sure he played with a local league in the spring. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Territorial empires are tightly controlled but costly to maintain; hegemonic empires are inexpensive to maintain, because the original local rulers incur the costs of administration, but the loose tie between master and vassal encourages rebellion. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I doubt whether any of us could think of a way to improve on it, beyond maybe shifting a local cloud from here to there on occasion. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, widespread local mistrust of the regime in Alexandria prevented the new calendar from being wholly implemented. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

He had interests in car dealerships and a local chain of electronics stores, in addition to his core business of selling high-end dry-cleaning equipment. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short obituary runs in the town paper, citing the names of Ashima and Gogol and Sonia, mentioning that the children had been educated at the local schools. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We will have visitors at our meet this afternoon. Channel Seven is sending a local news crew out to do a story on the team, and on Jessica.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

After supper, all five Keeleys piled into the family van and headed off to the local toy store. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

For their wanderings, Amanda and Roamer are planning to focus on the James Whitcomb Riley Museum and our local farm and history museum, which is right here in Bartlett and features an actual Egyptian mummy. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At age three, James began attending the local schoolhouse with his siblings, often riding there on his brother's back. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

By the middle of the year, the local branches of the ANC and the TIC and the local Ratepayers Association were mobilizing people to resist. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One says that District 12 has always been a bit backward but that local customs can be charming. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

You wish to know that your grief is happening on a local level, not on a national one. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

At the town's main inn, however, I was informed all the rooms were occupied on account of a local agricultural fair. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

In his pockets the officer found $112, a bus ticket for Petersburg, Illinois, and documents that identified him as Thomas Dowell, an obscure local jockey. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The song was obviously of his own devising, a rather candid revelation about the personal habits of a local nobleman. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I asked Joel if he believed the industrial food chain would ever be replaced by a local food system. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I shrugged as if such things couldn’t be further from my mind, and was glad when Threpe turned the topic to a piece of gossip about one of the local councilmen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

With a few hours to kill before his meeting with Fuchs, he strolled through a local history museum. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Get your Billy Bump’s Hair Tonic today at your local barbershop. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the early days of living here, she went from working at a local Sizzler to becoming a nanny. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The Germans found and searched their bodies, then left the dead aviators for local villagers to bury. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The National High Command was at the top; below it were Regional Commands in each of the provinces, and below that there were local commands and cells. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Howard worked at Clovis for four years, each time staffing the field crews with a mix of sunburned locals in boots and jeans and well-tailored Ivy League college students on vacation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

An outspoken group of thirteen movement leaders held a press conference with local newspapers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And wherever it seems appropriate, we differentiate national or local styles within a period, until we arrive at the personal styles of individual artists. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus stop is on the corner of the local park, so there's a lot of space for all of us to spread out. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Our local swamp was called Brenda Swamp, named after a girl who died there way back before I was born. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, on Tuesday, July 22, President Woodrow Wilson, who had been reluctant to intervene in what he chose to regard as a local matter, decided he needed to take action. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Some have become symbionts in more specialized, local relations, living as working parts in the tissues of higher organisms. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier in the year, a landmark $11 billion lawsuit that would determine how local school districts were funded by the state had played to an empty courtroom. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If loggers or farmers clear away the vegetation, they also remove the local supply of nutrients. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Frankie’s father didn’t say much else, but the others exchanged some awkward small talk about the weather and local Spitalfields gossip involving the market as Albert led everyone into the dining room. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But once, she invited the daughter of the bishop at her local church to visit her when Terryl was visiting her maternal grandparents. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

A few locals ran toward us, laughing and shaking their heads in disbelief. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

When they were flush with a silver coin or two, they’d go to the local convenience store and buy food for breakfast or dinner, often splitting a pack of Hostess donuts. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Another e-mail came from a corporation in Pennsylvania, less formally written, telling her a local professor had identified her as a provocative race blogger and asking if she would lead their annual diversity workshop. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But then I’d thought that maybe I could pick up some valuable information from a group like this—so many locals, some who might even know Day personally. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He was also a part of the local youth track team, the Jaguars. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I was taken to the local hospital, the first time in my life I had ever been to a hospital or seen a doctor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A watercolor by Ashima’s father, of a caravan of camels in a desert in Rajasthan, is framed at the local print shop and hung on the living room wall. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then you could trade your sturdy military men’s underwear with local people in exchange for potatoes or milk. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I always like to make use of the local livestock.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Even though everybody watched the local news, I couldn’t believe that Sookie had seen Mom too. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Last year we were asked to write essays about freedom for a contest sponsored by our local Rotary Club for the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Petal Paper carried local news along with short features such as “Citizen of the Week” and “Prayer and Meditation.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On weekends he cut hay again with Harry Secor and dug irrigation ditches for local farmers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

How do you integrate your projects with local, national, and international events? with historical, biological, geological, and astronomical time scales? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Years ago she was on the fast track: modeling for Jet magazine, appearing in local television commercials, and competing in beauty pageants. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

After seeing Seabiscuit walk from the train, a local reporter stated that the rumor that his injury had been faked had been “confirmed.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the weather was first starting to cool off, I got arrested for lighting a fire in the park—the local cops aren't my biggest fans. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The Lafayettes discovered that local authorities were listening in on their phone calls. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the 1980s Fischer made a number of impressive ascents that earned him a modicum of local renown, but celebrity in the world climbing community eluded him. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I know because she brought over the local newspaper and asked if I’d seen the article about Redwood Farm Supply. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

In the second half of the 1590s, his personal commitments had increased when he established a stable relationship with Marina Gamba, a local Paduan woman from a lower social class. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Abu’s love and passion for football was passed down to my brother, with Qareeb playing football from a really young age in Pop Warner youth football programs, a local league for young boys. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“That’s only the beginning. It seems that the local weekly was hard up for news. They heard about it and sent their reporter over.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

On a snowy Thanksgiving Day in 1943, after a large meal together at a local Manhattan restaurant, Bentley and Golos returned to her apartment, where he fell asleep on the couch—and never woke up. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He knew the local customs, values, and traditions well and had put them to good use in the courtroom. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The inspectors gave each of the women ballots for local, state, and federal offices. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

During the most recent hearing in Baldwin County the State's local supporters walked out of the courtroom rather than hear the evidence that supported Walter's innocence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

For the previous two years, her visits had been stymied by local magistrates and by the repeated bannings that prevented her from traveling. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I would walk with friends down to U Street and hang out at the local clubs. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

We filmed the shows after school, then broadcast them that night—prime time—on local cable. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Out-of-state police could not make arrests, Kathy discovered, so on any arrest, a local officer had to be present along with any Guardsmen or contractors. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The local newspaper would later report she appeared to be a “storm center” for deputies’ bullets. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

But not before a significant number of the soldiers had joined with the Mississippi vigilantes and the local posse in hunting down blacks. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

My uncle Velile, my mom’s younger brother, lived with my grandmother, but he spent most of his time at the local tavern getting into fights. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A poster on the wall advertised a car wash to benefit the local Students Against Drunk Drivers chapter. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's where the professors and the local geniuses and all the rest of the university creeps send their kids. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Beverly Hills police thought it looked like the work of a drug addict, and accused a well-known local crook named Elmer Davis. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The Supreme Court, said Wallace, was “stealing little by little as a thief in the night to destroy local government.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I used every kind of soap within reach, Lifebuoy, Ivory, plus a local, rustic brand that felt like sandpaper. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My presence was cute at first, maybe okay for a local competition, but for the big game—on national television—that’s different. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

So, in keeping with local, state, and federal law, my apartment building’s security system immediately opened both of my security doors to grant them entrance. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Only in larger populations can the disease shift from one local area to another, thereby persisting until enough babies have been born in the originally infected area that measles can return there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Queer things” went on at the old house on the hill, the locals later told Fortune. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

For example, Bennett paid a visit to Montgomery, Alabama, for lunch with Julian L. McPhillips Jr., a wealthy Princeton alumnus and the managing partner of a local law firm. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

You go for your local constable, and he and I ride out and bring back the child and the criminals. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A local historian later ventured that the Osage murder trials received more media coverage than the previous year’s Scopes “monkey trial,” in Tennessee, regarding the legality of teaching evolution in a state-funded school. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t going to start blubbering for the local sports guy like he was my priest or something. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the men and women at Langley joined softball or basketball teams and played in local amateur leagues. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It meant that the local people realized we wanted to help. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Omer wanted to invite her to a poetry reading by local poets at his school that evening. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no telling what some nuts would say to an old man whose grandson might testify on the wrong side of a local murder trial. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

To get help in an emergency, people contacted their local telephone operator. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

She took pictures of the jungle gym at the local park, of streetlights at night, of city workers chopping down an oak that had been struck by lightning. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And in my part of the world, there is no greater temple to all things organic, natural, and unprocessed than my local Whole Foods supermarket. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

So they added three hundred rangers, forty local militia members, and fifty Native allies to their troop count. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

When Garfield's train passed stations along the way, local people waved American flags and stood with their hats off in respect. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A few years later, when Robbie won his scholarship to the local grammar, Jack Tallis took the first step in an enduring patronage by paying for the uniform and textbooks. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I recognize them as the calligraphy that a local Moroccan painter recently donated. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

"Moira thinks this is only the beginning. She's got a friend who works the police beat for the local news out there, and she..." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I had no idea how Lettie found out that my family worked root—probably that local girl who whispered in Lettie’s ear told her my uncle was a witch doctor. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Thus the category ‘discovery’ proved to be capable of disseminating across the various local cultures of Renaissance Europe, but it did not fare well elsewhere. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Prim and serious, she directed the choir at a local church and was also our community’s resident piano teacher. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Looking up at the Massachusetts license plates on the mantel—ones from 1928 and 1929—I’m reminded of how superstitious the local fishermen are. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

In vain I searched for the banners of my union local. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something in his leisurely movements and the secure position of his feet upon the lawn suggested that it was Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to determine what share was his of our local heavens. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Nick became sort of a hero for kids all over town, and he quickly learned that being a hero—even if you’re only a local hero—isn’t a free ride. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The local beer loyalties of individual German drinkers are reinforced by German laws that make it hard for foreign beers to compete in the German market. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Our other example of indigenous agriculture apparently constrained by the local flora comes from the eastern United States. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The document also commended the local sheriff for his prompt and successful action to protect property and persons in the vicinity and for his judgment in selecting his deputies. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

No wonder the local people began to think the professor was crazy! My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The nymph here, perched on an open flower, is an inaccurate combination of these two insects, which locals assured her were related. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The sanctuary ironically became a poor refuge after the local health authorities undertook a campaign to wipe out the salt-marsh mosquitoes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

With her soft Appalachian accent, Justice leaves no doubt that she is a local girl, steeped in the culture of the old family cemeteries that dot the mountains here in East Kentucky. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

When the 60 Minutes piece aired months later, local officials were quick to discredit it. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I got a call from a reporter at the local paper who wants to do a story on our heroic daughter. Why didn’t you tell us?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I see the same process when I am abandoning a campsite, and local people come to scavenge what is left. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But cheaper merchandise isn’t always better, leaving local entrepreneurs to prove that quality is queen. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I stopped at my local garage to get my car inspected on my way home. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Detective Shannon Keene, who was handling the Moss case, arranged for me to be interviewed by our local authorities. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

According to local maps, Riverbank could be found in the small town of Geneva, Illinois. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Already, he had heard the locals refer to it as the Newsless Courier, and he had immediately adapted the bastardized version as his own. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a small boy in Tilsit, I once found my way inside the pipe organ of a local church. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The movement includes farmers in Europe who try to preserve local food products and eating habits. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The notice had appeared in the local newspaper only once, less than a week before the event. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Doha thought he was someone who worked in the local government office. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

And if you don’t have some feeling for probabilities, automobile accidents might seem a relatively minor problem of local travel, whereas being killed by terrorists might seem to be a major risk when going overseas. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Including Riker, whose Kidnapper Club is basically a local offshoot of the Golden Circle. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The goods have been donated by members and local shops, and the auction is expected to generate more than six thousand dollars this year, five hundred more dollars than last year. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The new science has to be placed in this local context. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Indeed, plainsong developed gradually and separately all over Christian Europe according to local tastes and traditions. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It's only at a local level, and I never meet anyone half as grand as the likes you associate with, sir, but in my own small way I believe I'm doing my part. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, though the exhibition did garner coverage in local newspapers, not one story mentioned the reason for the event: to bring attention to the American team’s financial straits. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We caught a local bus going north and only got off ’cause the driver called last stop. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

As with the adult Durham Klan unit, however, most of the Youth Corps’s work was focused on perceived local problems, and, given the tender age of Corps members, that meant problems in the schools. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were sitting outside a curbside cafe on Dong Khai Street, watching the local teenagers circle the square on mopeds. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

We buy it from the local hardware on Thursday afternoon and descend on the town at three that morning. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

We were flooded with media requests, and Walter and I gave television interviews to local, national, and even international press who wanted to report the story. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Since these speeches were in part rehearsal for when, as the local Member of the Legislative Assembly, Comrade Pillai would address thronging millions, there was something odd about their pitch and cadence. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now audiences, even in rural areas, are no longer as satisfied with local entertainers and demand world-class talent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it had only been a matter of establishing a campsite, assembling his men as they came ashore and moving quickly, before the local lordlings had any inkling of their peril. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He did, however, figure out that he was somewhere in Georgia, having accidentally stumbled onto a local Atlanta news station. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The local papers announced it to the world. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It seemed that he drove twice a week to all the local beauty parlors and barbershops, collecting their sweepings and arranging them, strand by strand, as carefully as a wren. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Listen, those are mostly local Reds. The North Korean Army isn’t here yet.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It lived in every piece of trash tossed carelessly in the grass at our local park and every ounce of malt liquor drained before dark. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The question, of course, was: Why were these statuettes so popular with the local folk? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His property was kind of a local tourist attraction—he’d even offered tours at one time. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

On the day before the final deadline, the local organizers told Anthony that they had failed. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

A local radio station invited them to be interviewed on October 28, two days before the Martian broadcast’s second anniversary. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Unlike the watch on his wrist, the pocket watch, he had explained to me, was set to the local time in Dacca, eleven hours ahead. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I got a little more play with some of the other news sites, smaller local outfits. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He was buried in the local churchyard in a coffin, it was said, made of tin. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She thought about one time, after a local pageant, her second, when she didn’t place. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Ahead of him, Myrtlewood drove to an insurmountable lead, with local star Professor Paul rallying in vain to catch her. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A month or so later my mother defied my father and secretly took us to the local Full Gospel Church, where we were baptized. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or was the founder package instead brought by invading farmers, who were thereby enabled to outbreed the local hunters and to kill, displace, or outnumber them? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s where locals catch up with each other. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

It was hogwash, he said, that this case had anything to do with preserving local control of school districts. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poe won a short story contest and the prize was publication in a local paper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then two weeks later the porter and conductor of the north bound local had helped her off the train at Maitland. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I watched Maxim at the breakfast table getting whiter and whiter as he read the papers, one after the other, and then the local one as well. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were covered with yellowed clippings from the local paper, angling competitions, soap box derbies. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

After the NIS, Shin told his story to counselors and psychiatrists at a government center for resettlement, then to human rights activists and fellow defectors, and then to the local and international news media. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

As he entered his teens, Johnny began haunting local stables, trading his labor for a chance to ride. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before Agent Burger could recruit Morrison, though, he needed to find him: Morrison had fled Osage County after assaulting a local Prohibition officer. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Craig Salt's yacht's over in Poole, so he drove over to address the troops. Couldn't just swan off to the local fleapit with you, I'm afraid.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“You know I put in my application to just about every store on the Fulton strip. I shoulda done what Charlise did, stay local and get those white people and their boutiques to hire me.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Each group manufactured its own tools from local materials. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They arrived at the Greenwich station in time to catch the 10:42 local. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Cairo, the day after a private meeting with the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, I was scheduled to address a large meeting in a local hall. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was so much a part of everyday life even the local police didn't bother with it, which is why the island was also a depot for smugglers. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

On March 31, deputations were sent to local authorities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of her children is Mrs. Myrtle Clare, who happens to be the local postmistress. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I met that morning in a safe flat in a white suburb with various members of the local and foreign press, and I once again called the stay-at-home “a tremendous success.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was late, but a bone expert from Chicago had presented that night and they might still be carousing in the local saloons. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I spent that night in a boardinghouse in town, rose early, and was joined for coffee in my room by two local chiefs to discuss their role in the new Bantu Authorities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It reminded me of the smell inside the men's public lavatory at our local railway-station. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Or whack out the local pets with my trusty slingshot or whatever—except I never had a slingshot, it was Grim who had one when he was my age. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was fluent in English, German, Swahili, and her family’s local language, called Luo. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

You might begin at the local beach, which functions as a sort of ganglion. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally the locals would discuss the Japanese and some fighting on the outer islands of Alaska, but even that seemed far away—not nearly as scary as Hazel’s problem. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She finishes swallowing her food, takes a sip of her wine, and then says, “Work is amazing. I just put up a show of local emerging artists. We’re getting lots of foot traffic.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The main entrance to the wire chicken coop was guarded as always by two local policemen who looked as if they were made of stone under the rain, with raincoats and rubber boots. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Wherever he traveled in the world, he rarely took time to enjoy the local culture or history, such as Machu Picchu in Peru or the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Well before other crops began to arrive from elsewhere, Native Americans settled in eastern U.S. river valleys and developed intensified food production based on local crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I doubt ye think at all! I keep ye hidden for nearly thirteen years, and then ye decide to go play with the locals, and my hard work goes straight in the garbage!” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Was it when she enrolled in the local school? The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Harry, on the other hand, was going to Stonewall High, the local public school. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

There were press photographers in the gym too, and even a camera crew from our local Eye on Burnt Mill Creek news program, which broadcast on a cable channel absolutely no one ever subscribed to. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

We may need a great many food chains that combine organic food and slow food and local foods in different ways. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In 1896, an indentured worker in British Guiana who called himself Bechu began publishing a series of letters to the local newspaper, revealing the conditions on the sugar plantations—or “estates,” as they were called. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Just a local troublemaker. Un alborotador. He’s always hanging around by the Shell station. The 7-Eleven, too. He lives in Capitol Oaks down the road.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Is this a local story, or a cross-cultural story? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They had tried to have a kid for years; then Tariq ended up putting his energy into adopting a blue-nose pit bull from the local shelter. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

This latter, written by a local minister, was “aimed at those Christians who were afraid not to read any printed word about Jesus.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the local market, a bubble of stopped conversation moves with me as I walk. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She began to take her niece to local benefits and community events, where Marian would be asked to sing a song or two and would earn twenty-five or even fifty cents. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Mendeleyev dutifully completed his studies and eventually landed a position at the local university. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Every eight days, he goes, a huge pot stowed in his car trunk, to a local fish store. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Funny, it was for all the local businesses in the neighborhood. I’ll have my assistant look into it.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And by noon, many citizens engaged in various local enterprises were talking excitedly to each other about how feisty little Joe Mondragon had gone and diverted the water illegally into his parents’ no-account beanfield. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked down to the time clock with everyone else, then noticed on the chalkboard that a meeting of the union local was to begin in about half an hour. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, while businessmen saw their usefulness, the local governments hated them. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Mr. Barris admits that he has been attempting to track him down for some time after admiring several Thiessen-crafted cuckoo clocks, and was pointed in the right direction by a local shopkeeper. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was the plainspoken convictions of one of Atlanta’s numerous young black collegians who often visited our local Temple Fifteen. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, Oppenheimer has a local connection to the Bay Area: he taught at the University of California at Berkeley. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

As they crossed the station floor, Tucker pointed out the local sights of interest, such as the Nedick’s lunch counter—Tucker spent a lot of time around there—and the Loft’s candy store. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day after the explosion in the stacks, there was a brief story about it on one of the local newsfeeds. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Others were locals who professed themselves to be Communists and denounced the Americans’ involvement in their government. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Allie came back and asked Uncle if it was okay for me to go with him to a local soccer match. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

"The right to self-defense is protected under local and federal law. The tragic loss of one so young to violence renews our resolve to quell gang activity in Underhill." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In a curling, fading copy of the Forest City Courier glued on the back wall was an article about the local literary club who discussed “The Negro in Literature” at one of their meetings. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He would often sneak to the studio of the local craftsman and watch him make paintbrushes and inkstones, hoping there would be a discarded one for him to take. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

But one omission in the local newspaper article upset my father. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

To confirm the story, some phoned their local newspapers, radio stations, or the police. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

On the local bus home, everything still shone in the light of Omer’s smile. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I tell the local operator the long distance number and wait. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We had talked about him spending time with family members in Florida while we monitored the local reaction to his release. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Every couple of weeks, nearby, state and local police officers conduct sweeps to find migrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

For example: a local park, a coffee shop, the library, or bus stops.* Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

On a Saturday night in February 1949, Radio Quito announced a Martian invasion using the newsflash technique and local place names. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

In four weeks he has gone from local joke to local hero as the placekicker for the Lake Windsor High Seagulls. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t go to the local one because I didn’t want to bump into anyone I might see on the street, in the supermarket, on the train. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A local resident counts forty migrants felled here by bandits, some hacked to death with a machete. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Generose had managed to keep a part-time job as a stacker at a local drugstore for a while, but since giving birth to Alyah six months before, she had been unemployed. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

They had dinner at a local restaurant called Alfonso's, while a babysitter watched their son, Lee. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The harder part was seeing the selfishness inherent in making that choice, knowing that it had required hours of advance meetings between security teams and local police. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The relative importance of local invention and of borrowing depends mainly on two factors: the ease of invention of the particular technology, and the proximity of the particular society to other societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Elizabeth is in charge of it, just like she is in charge of the local Rocky Horror Picture Show showings. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

To be most effective, she felt, her actions must be seen as a response to an important national issue, not just a local controversy. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

One Drum was this big outdoor event, held every spring in Rolland to raise money for local food banks. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I disagreed, arguing that a Halloween party for local kids and military families who’d never seen the White House before was a perfectly appropriate use for a tiny slice of the Social Office’s entertaining budget. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Maycomb’s regular pastors ate free for a week also, and it was hinted in disrespectful quarters that the local clergy deliberately led their churches into holding separate services, thereby gaining two more weeks’ honoraria. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

They met at the local soda fountain, where she worked after school and on weekends. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Men who usually skipped church to go fishing, and men who stayed late at the local bar and slept in on Sunday mornings, squeezed themselves in with the rest of the community. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Within minutes, local agents in Chicago and New York were dispatched and on their way. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The site was supposed to be very old—well before the local invention of pottery. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was raining when the local undertaker met Henrietta’s coffin at the Clover depot and slid it into the back of a rusted truck. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In addition, as we’ve seen in this chapter, local technology depends, for both its origin and its maintenance, not only on local invention but also on the diffusion of technology from elsewhere. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the small, isolated villages, even local people suspected of sorcery were ostracized or killed — the punishment was even worse for a touri. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The other ingredients weren’t so easy to come by: George visited local slaughterhouses at least once a week to collect cow fetuses and chicken blood. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was one thing to talk to national and local media, but this diary might be read by people outside Pakistan. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

One of the guests reported his statement to a local Union informant, who passed the tip along to soldiers who were now at the door at Hartmann Richter’s place to pick up Atzerodt. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They slept in the homes of local residents and they had a mess area with tables under a grove of trees. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Epiphany had never before won even the local championship, and there they were, up on stage, ready to compete for the state trophy. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the icy morning of December 13th, Revere rode north through deep snow to warn the local militia that the British were on their way. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was an exceptionally bright student–so very bright indeed that at the improbably youthful age of twelve he was put in charge of the local Quaker school. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

No one knows for sure, but local doctors think that as many as 30 percent of all men and women of childbearing age who live in the vicinity of Mount Elgon are infected with hiv. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alarmed, William went to two local doctors, who found no sign of any problem. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As the Portuguese navigators explored the coast of Africa they charted and named it, often borrowing names from the local peoples, or using the names of saints. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The panel questioned with greater depth Bryan Burkhart, about whom many locals had begun to whisper; after all, he was the last person seen with Anna before she went missing. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“You’d have to fight with the locals for scavenge rights. Fight for every inch. If it weren’t for treaties and the trading militias, even the transshipment zone would be contested.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Cyrene’s other principal local export was silphion, a plant that is now extinct but whose products had a universe of uses in antiquity. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Thirty thousand local residents turned out on a blustery day in mid-March to fete the men they had adopted as hometown heroes. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

You have my personal assurance that Mother Paula’s is working closely with local authorities, in full compliance with all laws, codes, and regulations. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would accept all comers sight unseen, but in the interim between the deal and the race, he would spy on the training of the local horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opened the door and discovered a local police officer and a sheriff. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Dusty Muleman had invited all the local big shots and politicians to the grand reopening of the casino boat. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

They talked for a while about Mr. Paul’s children, the weather, and local politics, but nobody said anything about integration or the Citizens’ Councils. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

She also did a quick check of the local history shelf before they left, hoping to find something about the Washingtons or the Allens, but she didn’t see any books related to them. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

On November 7, 1925, Bolton—whom a local reporter described as “one of the most beautiful girls ever reared in the city”—was found with a fatal bullet in her chest. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Three players from the local college recognize Dad and ask him for autographs “for our parents.” The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

In his speeches he managed a clever mix of pertinent local issues and grand Maoist rhetoric, which sounded even grander in Malayalam. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the summer they joined together in bands of twenty-five to thirty—cactus leaves, a local favorite, were plentiful enough in that season to support larger groups. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The breakfasts started in the Connecticut home of a partner in Goldman Sachs but grew so large they had to move to a local church. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Shush,” I said, as we entered the church doors and took in the sights and the sounds of our local parish. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Embarrassingly, almost all of the traffic was the other way—scores of English joined the locals despite promises of dire punishment. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Kiyo and my sister May and I enrolled in the local school, and what sticks in my memory from those few weeks is the teacher—not her looks, her remoteness. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Howard returned to San Francisco, opened the Pioneer Motor Company on Buick’s behalf, and hired a local man to manage it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

How, in short, do we assess the potential of an entire local flora for domestication? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, I told him, the land had been made available to these people by the local authorities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gilbert already had a small, local community of experts, but the Torricellian experiment produced an international network of a quite new sort. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Before Cahokia's rise, people were slowly hunting the local deer and bison populations to extinction. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The legislature approved his plan shifting responsibility for desegregation from the state to local school boards. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But he carried a small stock of new books and took special orders for people who didn’t use Amazon and/or preferred to support their local bookstore. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The boy was a member of a local and very notorious neighborhood gang. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Discussions of common sense generally fail to distinguish adequately universal and local definitions of the concept. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She’d been the local news anchor for years, and seemed to know everything about everyone. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

One of the first assignments I had as a council member was a series of speaking engagements at local schools in London about my journey as a minority member of Team USA. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

My father left the area as a teenager because there was no local high school for black children. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I caught wind of some local legends near the Mongolian border. Cost me nearly two months of brutal living to track her down.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

A local legislator introduced a bill seeking compensation on Walter's behalf that prompted the local press to report that Walter was seeking $9 million. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She was not there, but in a corner sat Russell, the young man who had been campaigning around the village, begging the Eskimos to vote “No” on requests for liquor licenses by the local restaurants. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You're right. Wasn't me at all. Was another fellow. Think we called him the local Harvard man. Remember him now. Studying music." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Hank’s a good choice. And you do want to stay local. Jessica will be needing regular adjustments—especially since she’s almost certainly still growing.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Again there was no record of local spraying. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“TV’s here, too,” said Kojo excitedly, nodding toward a couple of camera crews from local stations that had set up their tripods and equipment on the gym floor. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

When the federal government set up the Housing Authority in 1934 to help local governments replace substandard housing, many cities rushed to grab their share of the half-billion-dollar program. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

A local police detective named Mark Robinson lived in Rindlisbacher’s neighborhood. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The local Royal Air Force squadron has been flying bombers from that field since 1936. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

As a result, few blacks even tried to register, and the local government remained securely in white hands. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

All these facts indicate that the explanation for the lack of native mammal domestication outside Eurasia lay with the locally available wild mammals themselves, not with the local peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When a case got really out of hand he phoned a local doctor and sometimes one came if it seemed to be an emergency. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yali explained to me his role in getting local people to prepare for self-government. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was natural to think of the solar system as much more compact and local. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It takes me to an article on the website of the Clarion, the local newspaper. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He encouraged us all to go and check out the local artists’ work. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

State and local affiliates dissociated from the National and formed new groups. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Since he had started at the paper in 1910, Brougham had become something of a local legend, renowned for his uncanny ability to extract information from storied figures like Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Courtney Speed still runs her grocery store, where she continues to teach local children to do math, and hopes to open a Henrietta Lacks Museum. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

One afternoon a local farmer raced into town providing breathless word that almost all the rebels had left Mbandaka. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

When he had settled in, Joyce’s mother pulled out a clipping from the local newspaper and showed him the headline: “Joe Rantz Makes First Crew.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Down the block the neighborhood dead-ended in abandoned farmland that Mami read in the local paper the developers were negotiating to buy. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

About 150 gathered outside a local public hospital. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Etienne’s written out a list of local birds on the first three pages. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Woolf knew that among the local riders, only Wayne Wright was left-handed. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Armpit’s mother worked as a checker for H-E-B, a local supermarket chain. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Soon the children had raised enough money for the old man’s medicine, which Isabelle bought at the local pharmacy. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

In the local lexicon, Truman High, in otherwise prosperous Bucks County, is “on the wrong side of Route 1.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Many locals and visitors believed the eerie tales of lights flickering on and off during the night, dishes falling on their own, and phantoms in the bathroom mirror. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Most of our local leaders had been banned or arrested, and in the end, Sophiatown died not to the sound of gunfire but to the sound of rumbling trucks and sledgehammers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A visitor sees twisting streets, tidy clapboard houses with colored roofs, shops for tourists and locals, and people dressed in boots, parkas, scarves, and woolen hats pulled over their ears. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the time our news story ran through, the local newscast was over. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

These energetic volunteers knew their state legislators and the local issues, so they knew how to maximize their influence. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Some locals thought that Comstock, with his aquiline nose and tan complexion, might be part American Indian—an impression that he did little to discourage as he built up his legal practice. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Jacob was just telling me some local stories,” I volunteered. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I was publishing music reviews, articles, and essays in the local alternative newspaper, and this meant contact with more human beings. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

They could be fires of the Protection Units, or of local people forced out of their homes. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Also, he said, some of the local WHO bureaucrats were Polish, not Russian, and between the two nationalities old hatreds still endured. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It was a purely local election, but it had a world audience just the same. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

She got a special discount from the local milkman. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

In this case, they are mere prototype, a grand curiosity being worn by another local celeb, Philip Rosedale, the founder of Second Life. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Events outside of Durham also aroused local blacks. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Across the stream, a group of local Hazara boys were picking pattles of dried cow dung from the ground and stowing them into burlap sacks tethered to their backs. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The sisters voiced suspicions about their brother and about local law enforcement but complained that the prosecutor had disrespected and ignored them. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She engaged in disputes that annoyed the local nobility, and she sold soporific and perhaps hallucinogenic drugs as do contemporary Mexican curanderas. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so the story of the Colorado farms and their damaged crops assumes a significance that transcends its local importance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Ad hoc pockets of power developed, and local thuggery thrived. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Every local channel is broadcasting something related to the opening ceremony. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After six years running his local gang, J. T. was promoted to the board of directors. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It was hardly necessary on the flat streets of Ho Chi Minh City, or Saigon, as the locals still called it, but Artemis preferred to be as insulated from civilians as possible. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Something local, I think. About thirteen or fourteen years ago. A family was killed around here.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Every acquaintance was covered and every local event. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He ground through twenty-four-hour endurance tests and “stamina runs,” in which contestants looped up and down local roads until their beleaguered automobiles exploded or shed their wheels—the last one rolling was the winner. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the plant Mama brought back was a common local herb. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

We arrive at a small square with a few market stalls busy with local shoppers filling their baskets. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Two local politicians tried to “relate” to us, which made for serious condescension and boredom. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

A man who watched me play in the park suggested that my mother allow me to play in local chess tournaments. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, it is not yet known whether Ethiopians were cultivating these local plants before or only after the arrival of the Southwest Asian package. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She called her member of parliament and then her local doctor. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The local chieftain was an expert in hand-to-hand combat, using an offshoot of what was more popularly known as Brazilian jujitsu. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

His girlfriend was going to Saddleback—our local community college—and he wanted to be where she was. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

There is also a notice that though the funeral services will be private, condolences may be sent via the address of one of the local theaters. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Kelton grabs the remote and finds the local news channel—except now the entire channel is just color bars. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The concerned Barnbridge, along with friends of Corcoran’s, yesterday alerted state and local police, who put out a Missing Persons Bulletin. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The picture is not unlike Egypt today, where the government in Cairo keeps power by a combination of tactics, including management of local religious authorities that swerves between heavy-handed intimidation and cynical appeasement. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

For us, a family vacation is staying at a local hotel with a swimming pool for a weekend. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Maria quickly adopted the local Arawak-Dutch dialect, asking her native servants for information about both insects and plants. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

So as I ate I read through the local news. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

How we could get work there right away, on the local fishing boats, live for mad cheap and meet all kinds of tourist girls from everywhere in the world. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Some are purchased from local breeders, while others are trapped in big-city railroad yards. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Tom attended a local Baptist church with his family, and the preacher said that everyone was a sinner—even Emmett, the upholder of justice. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z