Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took a job as a research chemist with British Xylonite plastics in Essex and immediately began turning up at local Conservative Party affairs. Impressed Tory officials proposed her as their candidate for Dartford, then a safe Labor seat in Kent. Being chosen as a sacrificial lamb is the classic way to begin a career in British politics, and Margaret eagerly accepted. In the 1950 election Margaret, then 24, was the youngest woman running for Parliament. She lost, but Kingsley Wood, then leader of the Tories on the Dartford Council, recalls that "we all knew she was something different. She worked...
...official, as he dived for cover into a pile of crumpled visa forms. Outside, border guards with flapping puttees, braying donkeys, and assorted smugglers and baggage handlers churned about in confusion. Quiet soon returned, but the rebels had made their point. "Very, very bad this jihad [holy war]," a local tea vendor muttered. "The mujahidin are everywhere...
...island has just two native-born doctors and one dentist (as well as only three lawyers). Asked whether the alcohol and VD problems could be solved, one of the local doctors pondered and said, "Immaqa" (maybe). At the end of her home rule speech the Queen said: "Gûtip Kalâtdlit-Nunât sianigiliuk " (God bless Greenland). The islanders will need more than fond benedictions if they are to make a success of their semisovereign future...
...weeks ago, the Nightly News briefly fell into third place in the ratings for the first time ever. The network partly attributed the drop to ABC's rejuvenated news operation. It also admitted that affiliate switches had hurt; in the past two years, NBC has lost ten major local stations to ABC, affecting the ratings for both news and entertainment shows. Nonetheless, there were some hopeful signs: the news budget is up 23% over last year, and Tom Snyder (host of the new magazine Prime Time) and Phil Donahue (with frequent appearances on Today) should bring ratings punch...
This is his second call. He had fallen in love with Sally the summer before. Now he has come back to woo and win her. Sally is skittish. She has felt woefully unworthy ever since a local merchant prince jilted her because a childhood illness rendered her infertile...