Word: townes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wayne's politics is irrelevant to us young Americans today. As cowboy, he is the charismatic hero of a generation painfully aware of its placelessness in its own country: typically a stranger, he arrives in town with the unlocalized perspective which we youth have, plus the power-albeit on his hip-which we would have...
...this lawn and other dozens on the lawns between here and home. This year four showed up on this lawn, two on the lawns between here and home. A cat got one of the four and now a third has disappeared. The lovely mountain bluebird nested everywhere in this town and the surrounding hamlets and farms. I can't vouch for anywhere but my daily route-but here we have exactly one pair...
...battle lines were drawn between Sicilians and Neapolitans-a distinction that causes ill feeling even today. But Sicilians from one area also fought Sicilians from another area, going so far as to take Neapolitans as allies. A particularly bloody period in 1930-31 called the Castellammarese War (the town of Castellammare del Golfo was home to one of the factions) killed about 60 gangsters. Thus the factions agreed to unite behind the Mob's modern founding father, Salvatore Maranzano...
Like many other retired executives, Bonanno finds the routine irksome. Most mornings Hill drives him into town, where Bonanno attends to errands until about noon. Returning home-a rather small, three-bedroom house at 1847 East Elm Street-he usually lunches on an Italian sausage sandwich, then puts on a "ghastly-looking" pair of Bermudas for a couple of hours of sun and reading in the yard...
Along the border with Sinkiang, on the other hand, the Russians have all the advantages. Their rail network runs to the border, ending at a town ironically named Druzhba (meaning friendship). The Chinese rail system goes no farther than Urumchi, Sinkiang's capital, 250 miles from the border...