Word: townsmen
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...save it, townsmen, under the leadership of Architect Albert Chauvel, felled pine trees from a nearby forest, dragged them to the cathedral to reinforce crumbling columns, collected bricks from wrecked houses to make emergency walls...
Died. Dr. Takashi Nagai, 43, X-ray scientist, objective chronicler of A-bomb effects on himself and his townsmen; of chronic leukemia; in the one-room cabin he called "Love-Thy-Neighbor-as-Thyself-House" in Nagasaki, Japan. For years a hopeless invalid, given the last rites (he was a Roman Catholic) in 1948, he nonetheless kept on writing impassioned pleas for a peaceful, A-bombless world, moving descriptions of his devastated city's "society of spiritual bankrupts" (We of Nagasaki). Soon to be published: his final bequest to the world, Atomic Battleground Psychology...
...Berbers Ride. On Feb. 25, thousands of pro-French El Glaoui's Berber horsemen, wearing their war medals and flying the French tricolor attached to spears and old muzzle-loading guns, descended from the Atlas Mountains, headed for Fez and Rabat. Nervous townsmen bolted their shops; Arab women were kept indoors...
...night, at the village of Villevieux in central France, Vincent Auriol silently crawled in among the sacks in the back of a mail truck. Then the truck jounced past two German sentries, on its way to an open field six kilometers from town. Thirty townsmen had already slipped out to the field, to signal with flashlights to an approaching R.A.F. plane. Shortly after midnight, Auriol, General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny and three other passengers were safe in the air, bound for London...
...Their financial and public aspects, the reputation which they confer upon the institution, and a thousand other forces unite to make college athletics not so much an activity of undergraduate life as joint cooperative enterprises involving presidents, trustees, faculties, alumni, townsmen, and the vast publics of the radio and press," said the Carnegie Report in an introductory chapter...