Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Knowland used the post to travel the length and breadth of the state, getting to know people and letting them know him. He made news on being elected chairman of the Republican National Committee's executive committee, posed for pictures with every leading G.O.P. candidate who came through town, including Republican Leaders Tom Dewey and Wendell Willkie. He was, in fact, carefully preparing for the day when Hiram Johnson's Senate place would become vacant...
...summertime the queen of the Alps, 15,781-ft. Mont Blanc, puts only minor difficulties in the path of those who would woo and conquer her. Each year in the climbing season some 75,000 mountaineers flock to the resort town of Chamonix to have a try at scaling her heights, and most of them succeed. But in the winter, when her steep slopes are swept by gales often reaching 100 miles an hour and the temperature drops below zero, the icy-hearted mountain becomes a fickle and merciless termagant. Few, even among expert mountain climbers, care to risk...
...home-town crowd that had begun by rooting for Harlem's hero began to cheer the spectacle of a champ going down. "Hit him in his pink Cadillac," screamed a ringsider. Fullmer rained leather just about every place else. In the seventh he clubbed Robinson toward the canvas and then body-pushed him through the ropes. Sugar Ray was up at the count of six. For a brief flurry in the ninth, the champ looked like the destroyer of old. Still. Fullmer just kept coming...
When the new priest trudged up the hill to Castelpoto, accompanied by two armed policemen, his parishioners were waiting for him in the town square, jeering and yelling: "Get out! We don't want you. Go back where you came from!" Don Domenico Scapatici shrugged, smiled and gave them his blessing. But later he said: "It was the most terrible day of my life...
...they continue to do these things, they come to understand how their activities have generated an emotional involvement with each other, with their girls and with their town. A baby is born, a husband may starts being faithful, a brother leaves town, a friend may sell a play he has written, but they are all still gay. One supposes they have learned to accept only the necessary responsibilities...