Word: townsfolk
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...university town—Oxford, England—as an example of how town-gown relations can sour when students are too tightly woven into the community fabric.The so-called “Battle of St. Scholastica’s Day” occurred after rising tensions between townsfolk and Oxford University students—tensions attributed to students being governed by the University and not the town, even though the two inhabited the same space—came to a head in a bar brawl at a local tavern. This tiny conflict erupted into a full-scale riot which...
...road signspointing to restaurants and hotels. But if you arrive in Sant Celoni, just north of Barcelona, seeking one of the finest restaurants in the country, you'll be out of luck. The place is tucked away on a narrow street off the main square; most of the townsfolk are familiar with it but may be scant help if your Spanish is so lame that you confuse the words nombre and nmero...
Keene, N.H., takes its pumpkins seriously. It fell short of its usual record-breaking display of jack-o'-lanterns last year when the townsfolk gathered a mere 27,584 carved pumpkins (1,368 below their 2003 world record). They'll be going for the gold again on Oct. 22, amid pumpkin-carving, pie-eating and seed-spitting contests, orange fireworks and lots of pumpkin soup and cookies. --By Lisa McLaughlin...
...Babahoyo,” rapes, tortures and kills young boys and girls. The film begins at the funeral of the Monster’s most recent victims; Bonilla and his team have shamelessly intruded into the ceremony to gather footage of the grieving parents and conduct interviews with townsfolk...
...movie, already a hit at the Toronto Film Festival, honors and expands the old formula. The townsfolk are preparing for the Giant Vegetable Competition held each year by Lady Tottington (Helena Bonham Carter). To allay the villagers' fears that their supersize tomatoes and zucchini may be ravaged by rabbits, Wallace invents a gizmo that captures the critters without hurting them--much to the disapproval of Lady T.'s slimy suitor, Victor Quartermaine (a perfectly pompous Ralph Fiennes), who would rather blast the bunnies to bits. Soon the locals have a larger, more vicious threat: the mysterious, vegemaniacal Were-Rabbit...