Word: localize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conscience. Once there was a famine in the Shao Shan district and the poor, asking help from the rich farmers, started a movement called "Eat Rice Without Charge." This seemed reasonable to Mao, but not to his father who, like other farmers, kept selling rice to cities despite the local famine. Young Mao read pamphlets about the Western powers that were dismembering China. He read books that proclaimed China's need to modernize herself. He began to cut classes and teach himself from books. The principal reprimanded him and Mao said: "Though it will interfere with my own study...
Cool-eyed Conchita Cintron, 26, the world's top woman bullfighter got the cold shoulder in Mexico. She flew into Mexico City, ran smack into opposition from the local bullfighters' union: their ring, where she had wrung oles from the crowds eight years ago, was now no place for a woman. Back in 1940, Peru's Conchita had airily remarked that Mexican bulls were passable, but not nearly fierce enough to suit her taste...
...police hunt last July, a handy man in Baltimore confessed the murder of two eleven-year-old girls. Anywhere else in the U.S., it would have been Page One news. But not in Baltimore. There, judges of the Supreme Bench have a rule forbidding stories on confessions in local cases, because they think it might prejudice the defendant's right to an impartial trial. In the nine years in which Rule 904 has been in force the press has never seriously challenged it. When in doubt, an editor usually calls up a judge to ask what to print...
...extra added attraction of this particular Bravea' baseball clinic was the first local appearance of John P. Mcinnis, late of the Philadelphia Athletics, the Boston Red Sex, Norwich University, and Amherst college. Stuffy Mcinnis gave the lecture on first base play...
Student car-owners have cursed the petty gendarmes who tirelessly tag cars boarded on local streets. But far more swift and dreadful adversaries awaited the unwitting drivers who lit out of Cambridge for an interterm breather...