Word: townsman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the shooting, people in the town began flashing four fingers at students. When one townsman was asked what it meant, he explained: "This time we got four of you bastards. Next time we'll get more." Other residents turned this into a macabre jingle: "The score is four,And next time more." Michener finds such sentiments appalling, but so prevalent that they add up to a "frightening portrait of mid-America...
...told that he was out. The news was broken by the man who presided over the meeting, Thomas Gleed, who had often tangled with Keck. Gleed, a Seattle financier who made his money in lumber, is a close friend of Patterson and a keen fan of his fellow townsman, "Eddie" Carlson...
Eroded Ground. It was in dusty, sweltering Delano that la huelga began. A small group of predominantly Mexican-American farm workers led by Chavez met in a Roman Catholic church hall and voted to strike the vineyards. La huelga divided California's farm communities, pitting townsman against townsman. It produced conflicts that did credit to neither side. While Chavez preached nonviolence with deeprooted conviction, some of his followers set fire to packing sheds, slashed the tires of growers' trucks and threatened foremen with physical punishment. Growers and their men bullied the strikers, roughing them up and sometimes arranging...
...that of hippie settlements. Now the technology that the communards seek to escape is beginning to close in on towns like Mount Vernon. Until a couple of years ago, Mount Vernon was served by crank telephones and calls routed by two elderly operators who knew everyone in town. One townsman recalls: "They knew where everybody was and used to transfer calls if you were visiting somebody. Now we just have this dial stuff that gets only a lot of noise in the receiver...