Sentence:  To be Katharine Ross , and work in a nicer shop somewhere , at a little more money so she could have prettier clothes , and learn ladies ' manners and all like that , and get to know different <WSD>people</WSD> than up to now , not just the ones like her here , with foreign sounding names , the ones went to the same church and - Different place , different job , different people , she 'd be all different too . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively