Word: local
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sure that there aren't other cities where she could have won," said the Bentley spokesperson who is a Baltimore resident. "Baltimore people are local people. It's kind of insular in that way. And it's tough for an outsider to come in here and be automatically accepted...
...making local voters aware of her efforts inside the State House, Graham says she hopes to convince them that she is still actively working for them...
...been trapped in the ice off Point Barrow, Alaska. Sensing that their escape was at hand, the whales, nicknamed Putu (Ice Hole) and Siku (Ice), swam out of their icy prison into the slush-filled channel, cheered on by more than 100 spectators. Said Arnold Brower Jr., a local whaling captain: "I feel like my burden is lifted...
...many others around the world who saw the rescue on TV last week. For eight days scientists and local oil-company personnel had acted as Pied Pipers, coaxing the exhausted leviathans toward an open lead in the ice pack, while Eskimos, many of them whalers, sawed breathing holes in the 6-in.-thick ice. The effort had its setbacks. The third member of the original trio vanished under the ice and was presumed dead. It took two days to lure Putu and Siku around a shoal. And a "hoverbarge" being towed from Prudhoe Bay bogged down and got stuck...
...Eskimos, too, tired of the occupation army. "They are all making a big deal out of nature's way of feeding other animals," said local whaler Bob Aiken. Putu and Siku, for their part, lingered in the channel for more than a day. They still had to navigate some 7,000 miles southward to their Baja California winter home. But at long last they had been granted a new start...