Word: localitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recurrance of frequent minor earthquakes in New England in the last 30 years after a 150 year lapse leads geologists to believe that local tremors will steadily increase both in frequency and in force, Leet said...
...ordinance. The ban is no use to the firemen; it means nothing more than extra work for the Police Department; for students it is the last straw. There is only one group of people who stand to gain from the parking law, and they are the proprietors of the local garages and parking lots...
...coming year, they will live with local residents and take any courses in the University they want. Typical of their aim in these studies was Herbert Kundler's remark that he wanted to see how a government can rule by good will or "must people be governed by discipline and fear...
...developed a new twist for TV, which Sports Director Bill Stern calls "regional" telecasting. It is also tailored to local loyalties: last week NBC telecast Army-Davidson from New York to Richmond, while New England got the Yale-Connecticut game...
...kissing each other on the inside of his mouth, [and a] neck half a yard long and uncommonly brown," goes clear out of his mind from reading tales of knight-errantry. Renaming himself Don Quixote, and his jag-jointed nag Rocinante (translation: formerly a hack), the madman enlists a local farmer, one Sancho Panza, as his squire. Breathing the name of his ladylove, Dulcinea del Toboso (in real life a husky farm girl named Aldonza Lorenzo that he has never said two words to), Don Quixote sets out in quest of adventures...