Word: townsfolk
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...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...
...complained Clarke's daughter at a meeting of Uttoxeter townsfolk soon after, "was thrown in the street in the front of the very place where Mum's ashes were scattered." Five days after his eviction, the castellan himself took more direct action. Under cover of night, with a photographer standing by, he climbed right back in through a window (see cut). "It's good to be back," he announced...