Word: local
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slum-clearance program, to which the Government will make a direct contribution of $500 million to help finance local programs, and put up an additional $1 billion in loans...
...Gradually, as the repatriates talked to friendly representatives from home prefectures, looked at Japanese newspapers and books, attended reorientation lectures on the new government and the social structure, the crust of fear and suspicion softened; tight, drawn faces began to relax. Smiling repatriates in new grey clothes crowded around local exhibits in the prefectural exhibition building. One happy man saw his child's drawing on display. Another found his family's picture in a large album and burst into tears. Said one wide-eyed, thin-faced soldier: "They never told us it would be like this...
...that reported the result of the rigid entrance examinations for the Dominion's colleges & universities. It was a week of rejoicing for those who had passed. They became family heroes, with bright futures as teachers or civil servants. Some were showered with gifts of books and furniture from local shops and factories. But of the thousands who took the tests, only half escaped the blight of failure...
...crater which filled with mud and water. Steadily the explosions grew more violent; the steam smelled of sulphur and broke out strongly enough to toss rocks high in the air. But still there was no hot lava or other volcanic matter. The rocks and sand thrown out were just local material torn loose by the steam...
...moved and the bed of a nearby stream had to be deepened. The postmaster kept copious records of every move the mountain made. Geologists decided that it was caused by a "laccolith," a mass of molten material that had forced its way toward the surface, raising local rock strata instead of breaking through them...