Word: townely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thank you very much. How am I going to explain to my Eastern relatives and friends when they find out that you say the section of San Francisco in which I live is "the toughest part of town" [TIME...
...other San Franciscans agree with Reader deFord that their Fair city can boast a tougher part of town...
Blast after deafening blast rocked the neighborhood, and with each blow the sky flashed. brighter. Flames spurted up all over the village, spreading fast on an angry north wind into the neighboring factory town of Hirakata...
...mountain town of Leninsk-Kuznetski three ambitious agents of the NKVD (Commissariat for Home Affairs) and the acting city prosecutor, unable to fabricate cases against adult victims, took to arresting children for "Fascist terroristic activities." Scores were thrown into bedless, crawling cells along with common criminals and political prisoners. In their reports the purgers concealed the children's ages, passed them off as grown youths. Some of the child victims were shipped off to prisons in other cities, others were kept in Leninsk-Kuznetski and questioned night after night...
...through the streets of Paris in search of an unknown scientist who, according to rumors, could prevent rabies. For nine-year-old Joseph had been bitten in 14 places by a huge, mad dog and in a desperate attempt to cheat death, his mother had fled from their home town in Alsace to Paris. Early in the afternoon Mme Meister met a young physician in a hospital. "You mean Pasteur," he said. "I'll take you there...