Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost as much trouble as she had. The British, who run Cyprus, answered the demands of most Cypriots for union with Greece by promising a vague home-rule plan. This enraged the Turkish minority on the island. In sympathy, Turkish mobs rioted in Istanbul, and inflicted damage on their town estimated at ten times the value of the whole island of Cyprus (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Nigguh,' he said, 'I thought you ought to know the sun ain't nevuh set on a live nigguh in this town.' So I wrapped my constitutional rights in Cellophane, tucked 'em in my hip pocket and got out of sight. And, believe me, I caught the next train out of there...
...said: 'You're so evil I got to get rid of you. But I haven't the heart to sell you or give you to another man. So I'll tell you what I'll do: if you'll get out of the town and county and state, I'll give you your freedom.' Well, my great-grandfather never said a word, just looked at him. And he walked off the place, settled down a couple miles away, raised his family and lived there till the day he died. And nobody ever...
...other story happened years later when Lawyer Marshall was in a small Mississippi town, waiting for a train to Shreveport...
Last week, at its annual conference in the seaside town of Southport, Britain's giant Trades Union Congress (membership: 8,000,000) faced the issue of inflation head on. Its president, Charlie Geddes lashed out at Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer Rab Butler for slashing taxes before the last election (TIME, May 2), but devoted most of his speech to an eloquent plea for restraint. "If we exploit full employment," he warned, "our children may be exploited by unemployment ... If we are pricing ourselves out of the export market, we are pricing ourselves out of a job?and that...