Example sentences for: newport

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  • The story begins nearly a year earlier, in July 1965, when Dylan turned up with an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival, enraging Pete Seeger, Alan Lomax, and various followers of the folk revival, who were only interested in "authenticity" and political dissent.

  • Naturally, the Library of America edition also contains, hidden here and there in impossible-to-find locations, a number of solemn and stirring documents of state--for instance, the reply, genuinely dear to my own multiculturally American Jewish heart, that Washington made, as president, to a letter from the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, R.I.

  • The latifundium on the Hudson, the Astor and Morgan relatives Eleanor enlisted to bankroll her schemes, the yearly visits to Newport (to which Eleanor was hardly, pace Cook, dragged kicking and screaming), the government and charity connections that allowed her Val-Kill furniture company to break even--what would Eleanor have been without them?

  • Whale-watching expeditions are also organized during the winter migrations; they leave from Marina del Rey, San Pedro, Newport Beach, and several other points.

  • A kid looks into a cigarette-vending machine; a toy car is plastered with tobacco brand names; a Newport poster equates smoking with freshness and the outdoors; Joe Camel flaunts his sax.


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