Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ohio, five-time Governor Frank Lausche once again proved the truth of the local axiom that "nobody likes Lausche but the people" by capturing for the Democrats the state's second Senate seat, defeating a hard-working latter-day Ikeman, Senator George Bender...
...first the rebels, flames of a spontaneous combustion, had shown no sign of political organization, but now they began throwing up scores, perhaps hundreds, of local and district organizations. There was the Patriotic Peoples Front, the Hungarian National Committee, the Revolutionary Committee of Hungarian Intellectuals, the Hungarian Revolutionary...
...public interest." Where were the Big Three chains on this historic occasion? Displaying Veteran Cashier Bert Parks and his moneybags, putting Wyatt Earp through his heroic paces and inviting the nation to Name That Tune. (Only one TV station in the U.S. carried the U.N.-Manhattan's local WPIX...
...grew older and somewhat warmer, dates began to arrive by train and trickled from local inns, and one more adventurous couple braved the winds and roads to peddle a bicycle built for two about the campus...
Restaurants were overflowing and local novelty shops did a landoffice business on toy tigers. An occasional undergraduate carrying text books could be seen travelling furtively along the edges of the crowd...