Word: townsmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conscientious Congressmen to the Great Wall of China, the Pyramids, the Louvre. Or, in the case of Kansas Senator Robert Dole, en route to a United Nations food conference in Rome, to the village of Castel D'Aiano near Bologna, where he hoisted one or two with some townsmen. Dole's visit was not so much a junket as a sentimental journey. It was at Castel D'Aiano 34 years ago that the Senator, then a young infantry officer, led an attack across the Po River. He was wounded by enemy fire so severely that his right...
...visitor, however sympathetic, is prone to feel that the hope is deluded. The stripped-down Protestant faith of the townsmen should have readied them for that. Where two or three are gathered together, there first of all is Satan: pride of self, envy, greed. While it seems a near certainty that Plains' magnetism for tourists will diminish (when I was there, I saw a mere 300 a day-lots of parking, no crush), it also seems certain that the green crossroads and its 600 souls can never lapse into pre-Carter life. The cause is not Jimmy...
Community bulletin-board notices in Yamit range from the mundane to the momentous. One announces natural-childbirth classes; another appeals to the settler who left a pair of shoes in Sasoon's delicatessen to retrieve them. But mixed with these is a plea for volunteers to chauffeur townsmen to Jerusalem for a protest demonstration. Another seeks donations to a fund "to keep Yamit Israeli...
...consists of perhaps 500 youths. Three years ago, in a clumsy attempt to overthrow Sadat's "atheistic" regime, Moustafa's followers attacked the Egyptian Technical Military Academy at Heliopolis and provoked a battle with guards in which eleven people died and 27 were wounded. A year later townsmen of the Nile Valley village of Minya complained that the group was brainwashing their daughters and carrying them off as concubines. One young girl was even persuaded by the group to commit suicide as an atonement for her alleged sins...
...year-old bachelor farmer, a teen-age couple, a well-to-do industrialist, his wife and his maid, and a traveling salesman. The epidemic of shootings turned Lincoln into a horrified city under siege. People were afraid to go to work or even take out the garbage. Some townsmen were armed and deputized to patrol the streets. Eventually authorities nabbed the two desperadoes in Wyoming...