Word: townsmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agreed to build a mausoleum. On the great day of her arrival in 1958, some 10,000 people lined the streets, and dozens of white-frocked little girls named Izildinha scattered rose petals ahead of the pallbearers. There were speeches and fireworks; Constantino was hoisted on the shoulders of townsmen and officially named "honorary citizen of Monte Alto...
...visitors each year, but the authorities there know that customers are notoriously fickle; overnight a touch of bad weather, bad service in the hotels or an ugly scandal can send hundreds of tourists off in a huff to St. Moritz or Davos. Hence the reluctance of Zermatt's townsmen to talk about the curious wave of illness that began popping up three months ago. They stolidly ignored word from a Zurich physician that a patient just back from skiing in Zermatt was down with typhoid fever. They also shrugged off a report that an Italian immigrant working near Zermatt...
...living catering to motorists instead of farmers or miners. And highways often make it possible for residents of a small town to get to and from new jobs in another, larger town. A few years ago, Adams, Mass., appeared to be doomed by loss of textile mills, but enough townsmen found jobs at the General Electric plant in Pittsfield, 14 miles away, to keep Adams alive...
Flanagan, at 32, has been earning his living as a musician for 17 years. He grew up in jazz in Detroit with Milt Jackson, Billy Mitchell, Kenny Burrell and the Jones brothers. And he still prefers playing with his old townsmen, who now form something like a private labor union inside modern jazz. Hank Jones remains his idea of a really good pianist, and for the trio he hopes to form eventually, he would like Hank's brother Elvin on drums and Detroit's Major Holley on bass...
...When townsmen told him last month "This election means nothing; it changes nothing," Wylie took that remark as an important indicator of Chanzeaux's new attitude. For, with prosperity and the growth of voluntary organizations, Chanzeaux has lost its feeling of dependence upon the parties in which it long ago lost faith. The townsmen are confident that they can advance their interests effectively through their voluntary associations and by dealing directly with the civil service...