Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the supervision of John Read and Steven Hamlet, these amateur hockey players are organizing the league, which will be independent of Harvard except for name, rink, and goalie pads...
Canada's fastest-growing town this week is the Saskatchewan farm hamlet of Smiley, 300 miles northwest of Regina. Smiley's meager population has more than tripled, from 105 to 350, in the past four months. Roomers are bedded down on cots in the corridors of the town's only hotel. New streets have been laid out, lined with tar-paper shacks and auto trailers. A third classroom will be opened this week for the winter term in the Smiley schoolhouse...
...Governor's shocked indignation impressed voters at first, perhaps, but the brutal conduct of the raid quickly disillusioned most and invited swarms of anti-Pyle editorials in Arizona's newspapers. One must wonder whether the satisfaction of moral absolutists in Phoenix is worth the problem caused in a hamlet two hundred miles from the nearest "civilized" metropolis of ten thousand people...
Seven days after he took office, a farmer named Joe Allen Goforth went crazy and started down the main street of a hamlet named Krum with a .22 rifle in one hand and a shotgun in the other. He fired his shotgun at a man who was painting the bank, and then ducked into a barber shop. When the new sheriff arrived, Krum residents called: "Don't go in there. He's crazy." But Hodges drew his pistol, walked up to the barber shop, and called: "This is the sheriff of Denton County. Come...
...Winston Churchill, in whose honor I venture to quote the words of Hamlet: "He [is] a man, take him for all in all. I shall never look upon his like again." PETER HENRIK HANSEN Copenhagen Sir: Your choice . . . has us sitting on the edges of our chairs. On the one hand, Joe Mc Carthy does not quite measure up to the high standard that you have set. On the other . . . McCarthyism has this year become the world's top anti-American issue ... at home, our idea of a perfect Roman holiday is to sit before...