Word: towns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning this week the people of Melsungen, an old walled town in Hesse only 22 miles from the Soviet zone's border, were awakened by the croak of the town criers. "Come to the Schlosshof," their voices called through the narrow streets. "Come to the Schlosshof and give aid to our beleaguered countrymen...
...square resounded with one mighty "Ja!" Then & there the town meeting agreed to contribute four freight cars of grain, dried fish and fresh vegetables to be flown to Berlin. All over Western Germany, much the same thing was happening. Russia's brutal siege of Berlin had shaken Western Germany out of a surly indifference. In Hamburg, Bremen and Lower Saxony, local governments passed resolutions pledging one full day's ration from each citizen. In the Ruhr, German authorities ordered 100,000 tons of coal, which had been earmarked for Ruhr homes, to be flown to Berlin instead...
...green-uniformed rebel band took over the small mining town of Batuarang, just north of the placid Malayan capital of Kuala Lumpur. While some of the rebels pinned the police to their barracks with heavy automatic fire, others expertly sabotaged the coal mine-the only one operating in all Malaya. Shooting up a school bus and murdering a foreman and four workers, 37 of the bandits, including a teen-age girl, swept down on the railway station and held up an incoming train. The rebel leader emptied the railroad cash box, snapped: "We only want European property. We are going...
Maurice Thorez bent his bull neck and buried his head in his hands. In the town hall of Gentilly, near Paris, he was presiding over a meeting of the French Communist Party's Central Committee. He was presiding, but the man in charge was a former schoolteacher, handsome 41-year-old Etienne Fajon. And, in front of all the comrades, Fajon was giving him a polite but painful roasting...
...midst of a torrid political campaign, some years ago, in a Central American country, Pitcher Leroy ("Satchel") Paige and his barnstorming Negro team arrived in town. One of the candidates, a longtime aficionado of beisbol and Satchel, made his rival a sporting proposition: let the election turn on the game; he would bet on Satchel, and whoever won the bet would win the election. The bet was made. Satchel won in a breeze, but. didn't stick around for thanks: he detected the flash of machetes from the defeated candidate's supporters...