Word: townsmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besotted soldiers went to the shelter openings, called on the men to come out. There was a burst of machine-gun fire as each emerged-the parish priest, village officials, farmers, townsmen, 23 men in all. Women and children, cowering in the tunnels, were not molested (but one infant was killed by a fire bomb tossed into a shelter...
...correspondents visited some villages and the Moldavian towns of Dorohoi and Botosani (prewar pop.: 15,000, 32,000). They found a young, inexperienced, incompetent mayor at Botosani, rampant inflation, peasants cheated by the townsmen, all the old laws still on the books (although no one now obeys the anti-Semitic laws). All was according to Rumanian custom, Rumanian preference...
...Mickey") Sullivan, the townsmen's testy champion, was once kicked in the pants by undergraduates. But last week's racial out break was something new and ominous in Harvard's experience...
...first stop was at West Point (pop. 2,510), where a high-school band and a thousand curious townsmen clustered on the main street. Wendell Willkie, hero to millions in 1940, world-flying confidant of Churchill, Stalin and Chiang Kaishek, climbed up on a truck. Slouched against the cab, hands in pockets, he urged his listeners to unite behind the next President "whoever...
...place in a town v. gown stew. A. Burns Chalmers, the college's pacifistic Quaker chaplain, is host to a 27-year-old mathematical physicist, Schuichi Kusaka, born in Japan, newly appointed to the Smith faculty. Kusaka was in Northampton with the approval of the FBI, but some townsmen had found his presence unfair "to those who have died...