Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a loss to Cornell which no one noticed, Boston's attention focused on wisps of smoke above the Vatican and the elevation of Cardinal Cushing--events which monopolized local front pages as to tempt readers to forget the Reformation had ever taken place. Occasionally politics managed to break into the headlines. Senator Kennedy returned to Cambridge, and, in an attempt to capture the "outer fringe" vote, dined with Councilman Al Vellucci...
...Right. Many New England witches were hanged, none was burned. The exception was Salem's Giles Cory who was bound, stretched out on the ground and covered with heavy stones. When the dying man's tongue protruded from his mouth, the local sheriff pushed it back with his cane...
...legislation programs -they will be held accountable for the resulting deficit. The President has hinted at a tax cut next year if the line is held this year, and House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck has all but promised it; at a time when taxes are climbing at state and local levels, big-spending Democrats might be held responsible for knifing the cut. If the Democrats go along with the budget -and if it does balance as promised -the Republicans can claim the credit...
South Boston wards and is, says a local politico, a "district that demands service." It gets service from Roman Catholic John McCormack: the Twelfth probably has more public housing than any other U.S. congressional district. Childless, devoted to his wife Harriet (he can boast that in 39 years of marriage they have never missed dinner together, whether at public banquet or in fireside privacy), McCormack too is, in effect, wedded to the House. Heir apparent to Rayburn, leader of the New England Democratic bloc, grey, sharp-featured John McCormack is, in his own words, his party's "field general...
...Guards), but he also likes to think for himself. First he expressed his opposition to capital punishment, for which some of Bournemouth's retired officers and wealthy widows have never forgiven him. Worst of all, Backbencher Tory Nicolson publicly criticized Sir Anthony Eden's Suez invasion. Outraged, local Tory leaders formally forbade members of the local party to have any contact with him, and pointedly announced that in the next election, Bournemouth East's Tory candidate would be Major James Friend -a huntin' and shootin' Staffordshire squire given to sweeping reflections on Britain...