Word: townsfolk
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...wasn’t about the money; in my family, we made before we bought. For my grandmother, this was obvious. Her values rested in the 1920s town of Zilpo, where townsfolk didn’t know why you would buy new drapes if the ones you had blocked the sun okay, or if you could make them yourself. Didn’t see the reason for a new table if there was one in the sitting room already; besides, what would you do with another table anyway, buy more trinkets to cover it? They did, however, realize the need...
...sells South Korean refrigerators, French yogurt and fake Italian pumps. Several houses are being built on the outskirts--the first new residential construction in more than a decade. And until recently, there was plenty of work for everyone at the five factories that employ the bulk of the townsfolk...
...sells South Korean refrigerators, French yogurt and fake Italian pumps. Several houses are being built on the outskirts - the first new residential construction in more than a decade. And until recently there was plenty of work for everyone at the five factories that employ the bulk of the townsfolk. (See pictures of Russian aristocracy...
...million plant about an hour's drive north of Indianapolis. The plant's sole purpose was to build energy-efficient transmissions for Chrysler. The plant would inject some 1,200 new jobs into a state whose economy is both ailing and heavily dependent on the automotive industry. Townsfolk talked of a new hotel, a new fast-food restaurant. Earlier this month, however, Getrag announced that the entity established to build the Tipton plant would file for bankruptcy and that the plant would not open, mainly because Chrysler backed out of its agreement. "We had big ideas, big plans," says Tipton...
That's about the only thing I didn't know about Bristol Palin's pregnancy. The rest of the details I picked up almost without trying, while talking about other things with townsfolk - some who know the governor and her family well, some who don't. It was, more or less, an open secret. And everyone was saying the same thing: the governor's 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, the father is her boyfriend, and it's really nobody's business beyond that...