Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dramatize the record of the Republican Administration in political terms left the G.O.P. leaderless and disorganized, while the Democrats built up a two-to-one organizational lead in volunteer workers across the U.S. Then Vice President Richard Nixon set off on his no-stop campaign trip, gave state and local G.O.P. leaders the spark they needed. By last week, with Ike jumping into the campaign to assert his own brand of party leadership (see Republicans), Republican spirits were on the rise. At week's end, bone weary, with voice choked by a cold, Nixon hailed "the shot...
Issuing forth from ranch houses, county courthouses and statehouses across the nation, hoards of Democratic Party workers filled the crisp fall air with bristling words about their party, the opposition and the Democratic candidates. Confident that they were winning hands down, they knew when to ride entirely on local savvy and prestige, when to call in one of their headliners to rally up the homefolks. Among last week's headliners...
...holding 3,000 tons of wheat in his private warehouse. Two other ex-ministers hurriedly told the government that they had wheat hoards of 6,250 tons and 1,500 tons respectively. Former Defense Minister Mohammed Ayub Khuhro languished in jail on black-market charges, and a local magistrate refused him bail...
...life. Main trouble has always been to find two groups of people similar in all but a few respects, then pinpoint the variations as causes of differences in patterns of disease. Doctors from the Medical Col lege of South Carolina and the University of Haiti picked on their local Negro populations as ethnically indistinguishable, then did post-mortem examinations of the hearts and aortas of 139 South Carolinians and 128 Haitians of equivalent ages and the same sex distribution...
Yovicsin's first year has been a remarkable one. He survived the tireless battery of questions from the local press, the scepticism of many, a discouraging wave of injuries which resulted in something of a "jinx" year for the football team, and the demands made from both the Ivy Towers and the clubrooms. Yet he can still smile shyly from behind his desk in the Indoor Athletic Building and say honestly, "I'm certainly looking forward to next year...