Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Says Nuri: "The colonel stopped the exercise then and there and lectured us for 2 ½ hours. He said that fortifications are always out of date. Even if you fortify a town today with the most modern methods, he said, it will be out of date tomorrow because of new weapons and tactics. He told us that the right spirit for a commander is to do the job with the resources he has available. It's his duty to use his brain and energy with what's at hand, even if the town falls in half an hour...
...Covenanter. Commissioned a sublieutenant, Nuri rode back to Baghdad, slim, handsome in the mustache sprouted in Constantinople, and fiercely proud of his uniform. He became a platoon commander at a Persian border town, and fell in with Jafar al-Askari, a husky, bull-necked Arab a few years his senior. The two became fast friends, and in 1910, as one member of the family puts it, "they gave each other their sisters." Though in accordance with Arab custom Nuri was not introduced to his bride Naima till the wedding day, Jafar arranged for her to catch a glimpse of Nuri...
...violating curfew with a vengeance. When a phone call to league headquarters brought word that the Allentown (Pa.) Jets were not even scheduled to play that evening, the parents began to worry for fair. Then the truants arrived in a taxi. The parents demanded an immediate explanation. In a town that takes its Little Leagues seriously (the Mountainville League that the Jets belong to has a total of 270 players and the only regulation ballpark in town), the truth hurt. The two boys were not gadabouts; they were Little League "contract jumpers...
Farsighted Gamblers. Before Strickland came to town, every cub reporter in New Orleans knew that Sheriff William S. Coci's Jefferson Parish was the place to roll dice on green felt tables and bet on the hushed whirl of the roulette wheel. But no reporter could document the story in depth because the farsighted gamblers had taken the precaution of getting pictures of every newsman in town. When a reporter showed up, sharp-eyed bouncers gave him the thumb...
...shouted: "Take that filth away!") and unabashedly glorying in his work. Showing a nude he had just completed, he confessed that his model was the baker's wife, exclaimed: "She had a bottom-oh, forgive me. But it's true. It was so beautiful. The whole town would have liked to dance around...