Word: townsfolk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Englishman living in California sent a clipping of the letter to the Newmarket Journal, which printed it without comment last week. Newmarket (pop. 9,767) exploded. "Damned cheek!" snorted outraged townsfolk in bus queues and pubs. Growled George Goult, chairman of the urban district council: "I and the rest of the town take a very poor view of it... We shall refute it officially." London tabloids stirred up a fuss...
...little town of Sadec, 60 miles southwest of Saigon, French and Vietnamese soldiers were drawn up for an official inspection by General Chanson and Governor Thai Lap Thanh. In the crowded town square, white-kepied Foreign Legionnaires and red-capped Spahis paraded to military music, while peasants, townsfolk and children waved Vietnamese paper flags. As Chanson and Thanh got out of their Nash in front of the governor's residence, the soldiers presented arms, trumpeters sounded the general's call. General Chanson stood at attention and saluted...
CROSS SECTION, Kan., Nov. 24--Gonfalon B. Mud, the CRIMSON's newly-hired football prognosticator, could nowhere be located here yesterday for his Yale game prediction. According to townsfolk, the Kansau pollster embarked on a week-long drinking bingo immediately following last week's successful prediction of a Harvard victory over Brown...
...This was evidently poetry.) A young woman rushed in, fleeing from a witch-hunting posse. The townsfolk, she explains, accuse her of raising the dead...
...going to his father Vivien Prentice at Balfour, Ontario, Canada. Be kind to him." Since Ludar's father, himself a new arrival from England, has just committed suicide, and since Ludar can give only the vaguest information about his background, a kindly carpenter takes him in and the townsfolk take up a collection...