Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both men Italians? "What do I have to do?" asks De Sapio. "Send a special scout ahead all day everywhere I go to case a joint before I step inside? About a week ago, I was having lunch with some friends at one of the best restaurants in town.† We're all having a pleasant time, when suddenly someone comes up and tells me Costello is in the next room. Well, I called the owner and asked him, look, should I leave? No, he says, that's all right. He's going in a minute. Stay...
...Corner. In Auckland, New Zealand, the City Council altered its road boundaries when the Town Planning Staff pointed out that one officially proclaimed road ran into a zoo, through the lion's cage, the hyena's cage, the baboon's cage...
Stan is a handsome stripling and Amy Victoria Fibbens a skinny teen-ager when they get married at the turn of the century in the rickety church at Yuruga, a town where "a person could be dead an only the flies would cotton on." Stan takes his bride to a shack deep in untracked wilderness, where the awesome stillness has not been violated since the last glacier crunched to a halt. Stan fells the giant trees, pries grudging boulders out of the earth, builds up his own herd of cattle...
...snapping at his wife. He spent the early morning standing in line waiting to buy a ticket to the bleachers. By 10 a.m. he was comfortably situated on a hard bench, killing time by reading his program, kibitzing on a nearby casino game, and swapping insults with out-of-town visitors. When the Giants and the Cleveland Indians took the field to open the World Series, Hano was heated up and ready...
...High Heart. In Ferrara, Italy, Carlo Bonuzzi, 30, flew over the town in a small plane, showered it with multicolor leaflets which read: "Dear Friends and Citizens: By sending you greetings from this plane, I wish to demonstrate that even if I have been abandoned by my wife, I do not worry about it and keep on being amused...