Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody in the little (pop. 6,000) Netherlands town of Borculo knows anyone in Warren, Ark. personally. Nevertheless, last month the farmers, laborers, and shopkeepers of Borculo felt a sudden close kinship with the citizens of Warren. Fat, jolly Burgomaster Paul Drost had just told them what he had heard from his friend Cnoop Koopmans, the Dutch consul general in New York. Warren, Koopmans wrote, had just been struck low by a tornado (TIME, Jan. 17). In Borculo there was scarcely an adult who did not remember vividly the time his town had met the same fate...
Lingerie on the Hedge. That twister (one of the worst in Holland's history) tore the roof off every house in Borculo on Aug. 10, 1925. The people of Borculo never forgot how their town's church bells turned up in somebody's bedroom, and how a housewife's lingerie, just unpacked, was found draped on hedges and window frames all over town...
With his two sisters, Joseph worked all day on his father's 20 acres, lived in his father's one-story house that was built of sun-baked brick. When he went to the seminary in a nearby town, many of his fellow students looked down on him as a peasant's son. He was an intense, unsmiling and brilliant student...
...Sick & the Jailed. At 23, Joseph Pehm was ordained and went home to Csehimindszenty, where his mother proudly watched him celebrate his first Mass. In 1917 he went to teach in the small town of Zalaegerszeg, later became its parish priest. The parish he took over was in poor shape. He immediately started building a new church and a new school. He kept four cows and distributed milk to the undernourished children. He spent much time visiting the sick and the jailed. Soon he became a prisoner himself. When Bela Kun established his four months' Communist reign of terror...
...20th-century version of the home town of Myles Standish, William Bradford, and John Alden will go up three miles from its original site, however, to avoid "doing violence" to present day Plymouth...