Word: townsfolk
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...There was no International Federation of Professional Marksmen. Roger had won no championships, had shot no rifles and no pistols, had never even seen lower Broadway. His dreamy triumphs had all occurred while he lounged idly in a Left Bank bistro in Paris. Once again the laughter of fellow townsfolk rang in Roger's ears. But Roger did not stay to listen. By last week he had vanished, alone and inglorious, into the Norman countryside. His wife was suing him for divorce, and officials of the Legion of Honor were gruffly declining to discuss his case...
...book, young Radiguet told the story of an adolescent schoolboy in World War I who had fallen in love with a woman three years his senior whose husband was away at the front. The townsfolk of Saint-Maur, reading the story of illicit passion, remembered that the young author himself had been seen often in the company of a local schoolteacher named Alice, a married woman some years older...
Frenzy's Snarl. Successive blasts jolted Chestertown for a full 50 minutes; then, for four hours, rockets sporadically whistled skyward and briefly flashed. Some townsfolk had seen a jet plane, or two, or three, flying over seconds before the first detonation. Others watched the grey cloud rise from the plant and thought it looked mushroom-shaped. Mothers gathered their children, put the little ones into baby buggies and trundled them through traffic across the Chester River Bridge. There Chestertown's southbound refugees tangled with rescuers headed north-civil defense disaster units, firemen and police from neighboring towns...
...drawing, some 6,000 people-ranchers, townsfolk, Indians-crowded into the bright, flag-draped town square of Rupert (pop. 4,000). Under trees and ten-gallon hats, they watched a parade, listened to political speeches and waited for the winning names to be drawn. Tired of waiting and hoping, lean young (30) Leslie Clair Powers fell asleep on the grass. Next thing he knew, his wife Elizabeth was shaking him awake in wild excitement: the loudspeaker had blared his name...
Gartin attacked the voting and attendance record of incumbent Senator James 0. Eastland. Then he startled-and delighted-rednecks and townsfolk alike by suddenly waving the old, tattered banner of white supremacy. The crowd whooped and clapped with electric excitement when Gartin said: "The greatest champion of white supremacy in our generation was Theodore G. Bilbo." He charged that "the great cause of white supremacy suffered a stunning defeat . . ." when Bilbo's right to sit in the U.S. Senate was challenged before his death in 1947. Gartin, who had never hinted that he planned such a campaign, tongue-lashed...