tank town

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Its actors are unknowns, its scene a Southwestern tank town, and its subject boredom.

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Together they tour the tank town rodeo circuit, always following the same strategy.

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Life in and around their pelagic tank town is the subject of this eerie, colorful documentary by Jacques-Yves Cousteau, a successor to his awesome epic, The Silent World.

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She was not Mollie Ticklepitcher at all, as Mr. Lord had so kindly supposed, but an actress with a tank town stock company.

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I've pulled the Washington on tank town weeklies, trimmed boiler plate on all-home-print, and attained the eminence of space writer on county seat dailies.

From Thirty by O'Brien, Howard Vincent