Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...City was far more than buildings and businesses-it was the most dramatic manifestation of the vitality and imagination of the people of the U.S. He could not believe it could ever lose its greatness. Said he fervently, listening to it rumble: "It's a hell of a town...
...preparation for the tourist season, Pueblo, Colo, was shopping around for Indians who would come to Pueblo, spend their time "colorfully wandering around the town concentrating on nothing but being Indians...
...Manville, R.I. textile mill-the town's only industry-closed down. Said a worker: "You don't feel right and you think 'what's wrong?' And then it comes to you: the mill is quiet. We've been listening to that noise all our lives, even in our sleep. Makes a hum, kind of. It makes you feel funny to have it quiet...
Next day he did become the ruler of the Old City, though not of the Jewish-held modern town. In the morning two aged rabbis, Clutching their, long black robes about them and waving white flags, picked their way through the rubble of the' Jewish quarter toward Zion Gate. They had come to offer surrender in the name of the Old City's little (1,500) colony of Orthodox Jews and its smaller remaining band (290) of armed defenders who had held out during five months of Arab siege, eleven days of Arab Legion attack...
Sacha's chauffeur was told to drive back to town. At the Place Bellecour, on the site of a monument to the Resistance, he was made to get out of the car. Said a patriot: "On this spot six of our men were odiously assassinated by the Nazis. If you did not know it, now you do. Take off your hat and observe one minute of silence." Clenching his teeth, Sacha complied. Notoriously fond of talking, he was silent for an entire minute. His captors took flashbulb pictures which turned up in the Lyon newspaper Le Progres. Humiliated...