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townspeople

townzpee puhl

  • n  the people living in a municipality smaller than a city

  • The hospital explains away the townspeople's fears, a Red Cross social worker coaxes the men out of hiding.
  • The townspeople (most draw their living from logging) began to buy ads in the Laytonville Observer to protest Seuss.
  • Fierce fighting raged last week in East Pakistan as Bengali townspeople and peasants resisted the "occupation army" of 80,000 West Pakistani soldiers.
News & Articles

  • Mount Hope council votes to have second public hearing on plan
    Concerned that not enough townspeople had access to the city’s draft comprehensive plan before it went to council for vote, the Mount Hope Planning Commission has chosen to hold another public hearing about the document.
    June 13, 2013 - The Fayette Tribune
  • Mount Hope officials hold second public hearing on proposed comprehensive plan
    Concerned that not enough townspeople had access to the city’s draft comprehensive plan before it went to council for vote, the Mount Hope Planning Commission has chosen to hold another public hearing about the document.
    June 12, 2013 - The Register-Herald
  • Raynham promised a jackpot
    Raynham Park became the first slots developer to strike a local deal as the former greyhound racetrack won approval last night from selectmen for a pact that could pay the southeastern Massachusetts town $1 million a year in gaming cash. Townspeople and the state gaming board must still vote on the plan before any deal is done. “The town of Raynham will be well-served by this agreement,” said ...
    June 12, 2013 - Boston Herald
Quotes

  • Randy Blythe in Blabbermouth.net
    In a recent interview with Penny Blood magazine, Blythe stated about the role, "The character named Luke is pure aggression - which is what I am when on stage. He intimidates and keeps townspeople in line. I'm Tony Todd's bitch in the movie! I got...
  • Muhammad al-Idrisi in SciDev.net
    In the twelfth century, the geographer Al-Idrisi described it as "a town built on a plain crossed by a canal fed by the river. This canal flows under its walls and the townspeople use it for their baths and it flows through markets and streets."
  • Charles Eliot in Concord Monitor
    For crowded populations to live in health and happiness, they must have space for air, for light, for exercise, for rest, and for the enjoyment of that peaceful beauty of nature, which ...... is so refreshing to the tired souls of townspeople,...

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