Word: localize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When nearby Yenching University was occupied, the commissar of local Red forces called on the university's administrative committee. He apologized for interruption of electric service and promised the university would have current from the newly captured Peiping power station within three days...
Roaming through the familiar streets, she met an old boy friend generally known in the nickname-loving neighborhood as "The Chink." (Why he is called that, no one can say. When pressed for an explanation, a local bartender shrugged: "Why do they call me 'The Cheese...
Frankly, the local ski salesmen are somewhere this side of desperate. North Conway, N. H., considered by many as the mecca of New England skiing circles, boasted four to six inches of snow all Christmas vacation, and sweltered under 45 degree temperatures. Pinkham Notch had "intermitent skiing" although the notch is usually drifted full of snow by New Year...
...They were lured by the press notices from Aspen, Colorado, which boasted a 20 to 80 inch base and six to eight inches of powder, or north to the Laurentians which always seem to have snow. Others stayed in New England and slid at high speed down the mottled local slopes to give this area the highest Christmas accident percentage in years...
...lined up the Progressives of Cambridge and seval organizations in local colleges who object to the draft," said James B. Lynch 3G, temporary chairman of the UADC. The UADC has not yet applied to the dean's office for a charter...