tank town

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1940 Las Vegas was a scraggly tank town with a tumbleweed economy.

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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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Without air conditioning, explains a new Texan, Houston would have remained a torpid tank town, and never made it to the status of a big city.

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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