My parents liked the idea of small-town living.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Would Emma Do?] Reference

Is this the friendly small-town America we once knew?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: Show Us The Proof] Reference

For decades, gamblers helped finance small-town Japan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Betting Connection] Reference

I wanted back all those days I spent in small-town Asia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domesticity Never Looked So Exciting] Reference

In a second spot, she praised his small-town virtue: "" The truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Look Now] Reference

When I was 24, I took a clerical job in a small-town funeral home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Working With Death Was No Way To Live] Reference

There, in a small-town cinema, I saw a clip of Gandhi's Salt March.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gandhi’s Wonder Years] Reference

They want to bring small-town charm to blighted metropolitan landscapes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bye-Bye, Suburban Dream] Reference

Some Japanese students aren't prepared for small-town American college life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coming To America] Reference

Truman also had to rise above his own lingering small-town parlor anti-Semitism.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Case of Courage] Reference

THEY BOTH ROSE FROM HUMBLE, small-town boyhoods to achieve extraordinary success.    From Wordnik.com.  [From The Glass House To The White House] Reference

The league young Rozelle took over was very much a homogeneous small-town family.    From Wordnik.com.  [In A League Of His Own] Reference

Naomi Watts plays Betty, a small-town actress hoping to make it big in Hollywood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Best Sex Scene, Most Pointless Tv Cliffhanger, Worst Line In A Movie] Reference

Duany/Plater-ZyberkArchitects bring small-town look (Seaside, Fla.) to the 'burbs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Newsweek 100] Reference

It's likely to get worse for small-town gambling operations, but that's not all bad.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Betting Connection] Reference

(Built in 1930, it looks like a small-town bank in Iowa and could use some updating.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Talent Pool] Reference

D.A. (1 star) Desert Blue Quirky, small-town teen-agers discover love under quarantine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical Moment: Reviews] Reference

Sevigny, with her slow, lazy sexuality, makes this blowsy small-town girl oddly valiant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walk Like A Man, Talk Like A Man] Reference

Berg's touch was surer in small-town Texas, where his fine "Friday Night Lights" was set.    From Wordnik.com.  [Torrents Of Arabia] Reference

"Why not feature successful small-town business owners, dairy farmers, police or firemen?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: A Generation Hits a Major Milestone] Reference

But in recent years his stores have come under fire for putting small-town retailers out of business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is There A Hypermart In Heaven?] Reference

Clinton was the small-town boy who made good, vowing to "give the government back to the people again.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost Hopes Along The Bus Tour] Reference

For generations, small-town beauty queens and kings have been coming to Hollywood to make it in the movies.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE AUSSIES TAKE HOLLYWOOD] Reference

They try to lure relief agencies just as a small-town chamber of commerce might attract corporate investment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Real Faces Of Famine] Reference

Bradley's centrist appeal, Gore advisers believe, is based in part on his basketball fame and small-town roots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

Rather, he will be more like a small-town mayor with a motley police force and services not worthy of the name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can Peace Survive?] Reference

ON THE WEBAn Online OasisThe Mayo Clinic is famous for attracting glitterati to its small-town Minnesota campus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health Briefs] Reference

They feared that the small-town Missouri Baptist in the White House could not possibly understand their predicament.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Case of Courage] Reference

Many small-town theaters never get some of the year's best independent releases (or any foreign-language titles at all).    From Wordnik.com.  [Fest Easy] Reference

Seniors listen as Bradley recalls his youth in small-town Missouri, his basketball career and his 18 years in the Senate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outside Shot] Reference

About 75 people showed up for the service, which had all the simplicity, and all the heart, of a small-town prayer group.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Rallies] Reference

Big-city and small-town mayors alike know that their city governments are seen as a deep pocket to pay for almost any injury.    From Wordnik.com.  [Civil Wars] Reference

The two small-town bankers from Perry County are accused of illegally funneling money into Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drip, Drip, Drip] Reference

The joys of small-town life: good neighbors, tidy schools, the ole soda fountain and, of course, the cathouses and gambling halls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Viva Li'l Vegas] Reference

We elected Republicans who rode horses, pitched horseshoes or chain-sawed brush, and Democrats who were reared in the small-town South.    From Wordnik.com.  [On a Downtown Train] Reference

Despite the mythic benefits of small-town life for children, 15 of the 20 school-age kids in our community up and disappeared last year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leaps Of Faith] Reference

Inside were letters, charts, journal pages and copies of small-town histories -- the voluminous results of her life's passion: our family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recouping The Steep Cost Of Divorce] Reference