Word: folke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which boasted none of their expensive fantasies, life was simply transplanted for a while from Brooklyn and The Bronx, from the stores, the shops, the offices, the farms, the homes of Wisconsin, Kansas, Illinois, Missouri. It was life in rooming houses, tourist camps, family apartments, hotels rated for thrifty folk who could walk, drive or ride in public busses to public beaches, do their fishing from bridges and public boats, their loafing in public parks. They were folk who went to church or sang Rock of Ages in their hotel lobbies on Sunday evenings...
...Arctic coast today an Eskimo village of even 250 folk can catch scarcely enough seals, whales, caribou to live on. What these ancient Alaskans ate is all the more puzzling because they seem to have lacked such Arctic weapons as the Eskimo harpoon...
...Santa Anita. It had rained all day Friday. On Saturday morning the heavens added three and a half inches more for good measure. At post time the sun broke through the murky clouds. Then it rained some more. Cash customers puddle-jumped their way to the stands. Hollywood folk shrouded their finery in raincoats. Everyone...
...hardy folk who didn't mind a little weather, the races proved sensational. Those with a propensity for picking long shots had the time of their lives. At odds of 58-to-1 ($118.40 for a $2 ticket) a scarred, thin-shanked, mussy-looking four-year-old named Bay View astonished even his owner by winning the Santa Anita. The bay-colored long shot beat Charles S. Howard's Mioland, the favorite, by a good half-length. He led all the way. His owners, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Pelleted, who had a $100 bet on him, pocketed...
...odds the most intense concern of plain folk is food: "The verb 'to eat' is conjugated in every possible way whenever two people meet." By 3 on the afternoon of the day Antwerp fell, huge trucks were hauling the city's two-to-four-year stores back to Germany...