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- They were so different, these six: the whooping young Texas cowboy astride his white horse; the watchful Arizona Indian on his reservation; the happy-go-lucky Kentucky hillbilly skinny-dipping in the Licking River; the serious Wisconsin small-towner walking with his third-grade sweetheart under the shade trees; the handsome New Hampshire smoothie checking his profile in the drugstore window; the sturdy Czech immigrant playing his French horn in the teeming Pennsylvania steel mill town.†
Chpt 2.immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
- All of this sumptuous land cut through by a deep clear rushing river, the Fox, whose fish-filled waters had drawn generations of Indians and, later, the great tides of European immigrants, Dutch and German, flowing west in their caravans of prairie schooners.†
Chpt 2.immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- Mike Strank: Franklin Borough, Pennsylvania He was the enigma: the immigrant who became the ultimate fighting Yank; the cerebral little boy from the tough mill town who grew up to be the protosergeant; the physical intimidator who turned out to be the tough shepherd of his flock.†
Chpt 2.immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
- A complex built in 1898 by the Cambria Iron Company and soon to be taken over by Bethlehem Steel offered plenty of hard work for gritty, industrious immigrants: twenty-two open-hearth furnaces, two mills for rolling sheared plates, a universal plate mill, and a continuous bar mill.†
Chpt 2.immigrants = people who came to live in a new country
- Franklin Borough became a safe haven for East Central European immigrants and their offspring; by the early 1930's they would form a majority in the little town, a village-within-a-village, really.†
Chpt 2.
- But no one could completely shield the immigrant children from nativist bigotry.†
Chpt 2. *immigrant = a person who came to live in a new country
- Ann Bosophy, the Stranks' fellow immigrant from Jarabenia, recalls cringing on the schoolroom floor after being struck by her first-grade teacher.†
Chpt 2.
- Mike, the immigrant American, is representative of the best of the young leaders in the Pacific.†
Chpt 6.
- De Weldon was an Austrian immigrant schooled in European painting and sculpture.†
Chpt 12.
- The Czech immigrant to America, born on the Marine Corps birthday, serving his third tour of duty for his adopted country, the sergeant who was a friend to his boys, was cut down by friendly fire.†
Chpt 13.
Definitions:
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(1)
(immigrate) come to live in a new country
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, immigrate can mean that anything (such as an animal or plant) migrates into a new environment.