Hanford

[ han-ferd ]

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noun

a city in central California.
a locality in SE Washington, on the Columbia River: site of an atomic energy plant Hanford Works.

The local clinic had referred her to an obstetrician in Hanford, a 30-minute drive away.

Temperatures will tick upward in the coming days, reaching 103 degrees in Hanford on Monday and 100 in Redding.

Records in Hanford date to 1899, and show that highs of 110 degrees or greater have occurred on four or more consecutive days on only five occasions.

There are 200 square miles of contaminated groundwater under Hanford.

To people unfamiliar with Hanford, this might sound mildly apocalyptic.

Modern Hanford is not as quaint or as permanent as the B-Reactor.

Hanford offers everything a storyteller could want,” said the narrator, including “intrigue” and “patriotism.

Over the last 20 years, Hanford has also become something else: a tourist destination.

Josh said that when we got to a place where the path suddenly went down we were almost over the cabin where Jude Hanford lives.

Near him sat a thick-set grizzled man, with deep eyes; and this was Hanford Owens, county judge.

Mr. Temple, General Marriott, and Mr. Hanford were the only dissentients.

I thought you answered Miss Hanford's last letter yesterday.

His stage had been behind time in leaving Hanford, and as a consequence I had beaten him to the Pasco landing by ten minutes.

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