Word: townsfolk
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Then in the late spring of 1666, the plague erupted again in Eyam. By then the few townsfolk rich enough to have homes elsewhere were long gone. Now even the common folk, most with nowhere to go, decided to flee the town...
Much of the townsfolk's rancor is aimed at the school system's superintendent, Thomas Aquila, already one of the highest paid in the state. At $56,000, he makes more than the Governor of Connecticut. "We don't have quality education," complains Lupton. "What we have is spending gone berserk...
...accepted. "This is the little town that could. And it almost didn't," says Architect Tom Hirsch. Along with Ron Swiggum, who lost his meat-locker business in the last flood, Hirsch is the man most responsible for making the move possible. Together the two argued with fellow townsfolk, filled out forms, wrote letters, badgering the Government to move the downtown district from here to there...
...Accompanied by Paul Mercieca, Vitry's Communist mayor, a group of 50 residents and town officials swarmed over the building. They snipped telephone lines, sawed off water pipes, tore hot water heaters off the walls and ripped the wiring out of fuse boxes. While Mercieca stirred up the townsfolk through a bullhorn, one of the intruders revved up a bulldozer and rammed it into the building's iron railing. After knocking down a stone staircase and a cinder-block wall, he scooped the rubble into huge mounds that obstructed the building's entrances. The all-male group...
Thousands of rooms in hotels along the Amalfi coast from Naples to Salerno had been requisitioned for the survivors. But the townsfolk of Calitri remained unimpressed. They listened politely to the captain's arguments. Then an old man replied, "You are a good and capable man, but don't come here again. It would be better for your sake. This is where we live, and this is where we want to die." The buses departed empty...