Word: localism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Qualifying Round. In Worcester Park, England, Charles Spice, 99, got a local undertaker's promise of free burial if he makes...
Each Thursday evening a chest surgeon from Hollywood (Fla.) Memorial Hospital scrubs up in a local operating room, lays bare a patient's heart and performs delicate-usually lifesaving-surgery on it. What makes these operations unusual is that they are performed at a veterinary hospital and the patients are dogs, victims of heartworms...
...Wider rural as well as urban coverage for all age groups; special provision for the unemployed and retired, at rates they can afford, with the indigent to be covered by local government contracts...
...Complete reciprocity between all local plans so that a subscriber can get benefits anywhere...
...composed of psychological castaways: the magician's wife (Ingrid Thulin), masquerading as a male helper; his witch-grandmother; an ailing, tosspot actor; and a silly, sex-ridden coachman. Headed for Stockholm by coach, the troupe is stopped by police at a tollgate, taken into the custody of three local notables and challenged to prove its supernatural powers. As the magician prepares for the performance, his associates get seduced by the kitchen help, the hostess has hysterics, and grandma hands out love potions brewed from rat poison...