Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with simple dignity: "Is my clothes." Others refused to vote at all, regarded the whole procedure as a remote, devious and none-too-honest power struggle between the "foreigners" in the north. Now, though they still live in prehistory's backyard, many of the southerners are demanding increased local autonomy in return for their votes. Two and a half years ago, more than 200 people were killed when southerners staged a mass uprising in protest at discrimination against them by their administrators from the north...
...hotels were closed and empty. In a matter of days all but 24 of some 3,500 tourists fled home by cruise ship and plane. As they cleared out, a company of British troops flew in from Jamaica and a frigate steamed in from Bermuda to stand guard with local police. A militant Negro labor union had frozen sunny Nassau with a general strike, aimed at breaking the white minority's grip on political power...
...Local Equivalent. With Rooney directing the attack, the Kutis Undertakers have held their own against such jonker-teering German clubs as Augsburg and Nürnberg. "We've been told that we're the equivalent of a first-division professional team in Europe," Kutis reports...
Akins hurt DeMarco with an uppercut as the 10th round got underway and pounded the 26-year-old local boy unmercifully. However, the remarkable punishment-taker from nearby Fleet St. landed seven straight shots to the head just before the bell...
...problem facing the team is a lack of conditioning. Wrestling, unlike most sports, demands that each participant be in top shape for the nine minutes of all-out effort. In an effort to provide this, Lee plans to enter his team in five local YMCA meets during February and March...