Word: localitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same actions is taken with a different motive once or twice a year by the PBH social service committee, which sells unused end-zone seats to local children for 15 cents...
...Independents," running on their own records without other affiliation, last night made the usual election-eve forecasts of victory. Personalities rather than conflicting political views were the issues of the local campaign...
Then he turned to Communist China as calmly as he turned the pages in the looseleaf notebook before him. The department took a "serious view," he said, of the "flimsy pretext used by the local authorities" to prevent the homecoming of General Robert B. Soule, the U.S. military attache. "The U.S. Government does not countenance negotiations under duress and will not authorize its representatives in China to submit to such pressure...
...their turns at singing with piano or guitar accompaniment. In between, professional gospel song leaders led the audience in catchy religious songs not found in regular denominational hymnals. Most of the men, women & children attending had been going to gospel sings all their lives (eastern Texas averages about 300 local song get-togethers a week...
...bounce pass almost exclusively, scooted under and around the Oklahomans who were runners-up for the A.A.U. championship last year, actually beat them (55-46) in the second of three games (the Oilers had won the first, 38-29). The fans, who could scarcely believe their eyes, carried the local heroes away on their shoulders and the Buenos Aires Critica proclaimed that it was "David and Goliath all over again." Even though the Oilers won the finale, 71-52, Argentine sponsors felt so good about the whole thing that they were dickering with the Oakland (Calif.) Bittners, the A.A.U. champs...