Word: localism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deafness, cupped an ear, cried, "What's that? I can't hear you." It drew a laugh and eased the tension. In Nicaragua, while International Bank president, he was taken to a ballgame by Dictator Anastasio Somoza. The third baseman was wild. Later, at a banquet, the local after-dinner speakers kept asking for money from the guest of honor's Bank. When McCloy rose to speak, the atmosphere seemed sticky. He promptly aired it by saying: "What Nicaragua needs most is a good third baseman...
...Scotland Yard found 5,141 missing bugs. The hot beetles, insisted Gilmour, had merely been borrowed for further study. But this, decided a magistrate, scarcely explained why the student had sold 16 museum specimens to other collectors. He gave Gilmour three months' opportunity to study roaches in a local jail...
...just a little harmless bit of "socialization" in medicine-into thinking that Fishbein's firing meant a change in fundamental A.M.A. attitude. The tipoff came three days later, when the delegates passed the buck on approval of the controversial prepaid medical plans run by laymen back to the local societies-in the past, the bitterest enemies of prepaid plans. The House, without committing itself, passed along a set of principles to "guide" the local societies in this old fight...
...Penney always looked up & down the street so as not to lock out any late customers. By the end of his first year he had grossed $28,898.11-big money for a whistle stop. Soon Penney had surplus cash to buy stores in other towns, looked around for likely local partners. By 1912, he had 34 stores, grossing $2,000,000 a year...
...Pains. Most ozoners get by nicely with old movies, but many are clamoring for a chance to show the latest pictures: four Illinois drive-ins are suing for earlier showings. Another growing pain: at least three state legislatures are talking about regulating or taxing the drive-ins, and some local officials have banned them as road hazards because they disgorge hundreds of cars at once...