Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...usual, much of the outpouring of Jewish sentiment was spontaneous. Some was organized at local levels by rabbis and other Jewish community leaders. B'nai B'rith and the American Jewish Committee, as well as other national organizations, promoted the cause. In Washington, some 20 young men and women in the offices of AIPAC revved up their mimeograph machines to dispatch detailed "fact sheets" to all Senators. The group's four registered lobbyists, headed by Morris J. Amitay, 41, relentlessly roamed the Hill...
HOLYOKE, Mass.--"Well, it looks like them Harvards took their licks," a local fan chortled to another in the stands of MacKenzie Field here last evening, and indeed the Harvards had. When the dust--or mud, rather--had settled from last night's ballgame versus St. John's, the Crimson had lost its second shutout game in as many days, to drop out of the NCAA's Northeast Regional round-robin playoff tournament...
...batsmen had to contend not only with tough competition from the University of Delaware and St. John's, but also with a barrage of home-style Harvard finals, taken in the comfort of the local Holiday...
...late-inning strength. Umpire Joe Driscoll of Arlington watched the rain fall not-so-gently on the grassy plains of Holyoke High for four innings before suspending the contest at the end of the sixth, prompting coach Loyal Park to moan, "What happened out there was inexcusable. And a local guy did it to us." And he had a point--the wet stuff was falling no harder in the sixth than it had been in the eventually-fatal third when the Blue Hens scored their...
When asked how much he earns as a dog-owner, Rocco only smiles. "You should better ask me how much I lose a year, and that's about $25,000.' He added that his was one of the smaller, local kennels...