Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Here We Go Again? A few men were still being killed and wounded in local actions; such small-scale casualties did not seem small to the men who were hit or who saw comrades fall. Assuming peace was possible, no man coveted the distinction of being last man on the casualty list. The attitude of the troops toward the Kaesong negotiations was mixed. Some, showing a monumental calm bordering on indifference, were fatalists who counted more on rotation than on a cease-fire to get them out of the fighting. Others hung eagerly on every day's news from...
...Even in a few years' time, "the volcano of Paricutin in Mexico . . . floods in Guatemala, seismic catastrophes in El Salvador and Ecuador, civil strife in Colombia and an earthquake in Cuzco have all taken a tragic toll." Worst of all, according to Kelemen: civil authorities who are letting local masterpieces deteriorate through neglect-or are tearing them down to make way for widened streets and modern buildings...
Here Kohn developed his interest in teaching and scholarship as there was so much time for "sitting and reading." But he had a good chance to watch the coming of the revolution, as the prison camps were "not so strict." "You could go into the local town, and the people were good-natured." This was before "Lenin came and stopped the people from being easy-going." ("Too much efficiency is harmful...
...Dodger SymPhony Band, temporarily silenced by Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians because two of its members were union members (TIME, Aug. 6), was caterwauling away again this week, more stridently offkey than ever. After the union agreed that the Ebbets Field concerts could continue if amateurs replaced the union members, the sons of two SymPhonists joined the ensemble and the band blared...
...heart, Falkner was an antiquarian. He delighted in local history and prized his job as honorary reader in paleography at the University of Durham. Five years after Moonfleet, he wrote another adventure story, The Nebuly Coat, which the critics liked even better, but which did not sell nearly so well as the story of Johnnie Trenchard. It was Falkner's last fling as a novelist. Increasingly, like a sensible Englishman, he turned his attention to business. By 1915, he was chairman of the munitions firm of Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. But by 1932, when he died, it was clear that...