Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York's blizzard, most of the Yukon was enjoying crisp, sunny weather, and an inch or two of dry powdered snow merely lent a seasonable Christmas decor to the streets of Whitehorse and Dawson. The town thermometer outside the famous Whitehorse Inn has rarely dropped below zero this winter...
There once was a warm-blooded youth Who dwelt in the town of Duluth...
...After a few drinks, a soldier at Fort Sill, Okla. climbed into a 21-ton, self-propelled 155-mm. howitzer and, although he had never operated one before, drove it five miles into the town of Lawton (pop. 20,000), crashed into three autos, toured the business section, then rumbled on back to the fort-and into the guardhouse...
Sound trucks blared the order: "Wear shoes when you come to town, put on clean clothes, look tidy and decent. It is a shame to go walking around barefoot in your country's capital." Having just raised the minimum wage in Haiti from 50? to 70? a day, up-&-coming President Dumarsais Estimé was out to improve the appearance and living standards of his mouse-poor people...
...general, the CRIMSON differs little in aims from the great majority of newspapers. It has peculiarities, but so do the small-town weekly and the big city newspaper. Where the CRIMSON does differ radically, is that it draws its staff from all parts of the country, and changes the staff every year. Thus the paper has a broader, less clearly defined policy, and one that is liable to change from year to year. Although this is in some ways a disability, it prevents the CRIMSON from gouging deep ruts of ideas or style...