Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision to turn Girard over to Japan for trial to the final Japanese verdict-was in fact a big victory for law and its due process. The U.S.'s worldwide system of status-of-forces agreements recognizes that U.S. servicemen stationed in friendly nations must be subject to local law for crimes that violate local law and have nothing to do with military duty. Far from being an abandonment of the serviceman, the procedure is a recognition that the U.S. has far more to offer the free world than strength of arms. In its respect for local...
...same track as the 5:18, just as crowded and already behind schedule, the steam-driven 4:56 from Cannon Street was headed out for Ramsgate and the channel coast. Overhead, on the viaduct that crosses the main lines on the southeastern edge of London, an electric local was inching forward. At precisely 6:20, in a moment of ghostly horror, the blanket of fog was lit by a blinding blue flash. St. John's grimy brick houses rocked to a crash that sounded, said one resident, "like the explosion of a ton of bombs." Plunging ahead...
...most U.S. cities, Denver's business weekly bears as much resemblance as sour-mash bourbon to Sanka. Known as Cervi's Rocky Mountain Journal, after Editor and Publisher Eugene Sisto Cervi, the thriving $12-a-year Denver paper is a sassy, fact-crammed compendium of personals, local business transactions (including almost every new car sale in town) and well-honed gibes at such unlikely targets as the Chamber of Commerce, complacent businessmen, Scripps-Howard's Rocky Mountain News and the powerful Denver Post. Gene Cervi, 50, onetime Colorado State Democratic Chairman, and a graduate of both Denver...
...other hand, most of the papers are enthusiastic home-town boosters, campaign busily for local improvements, sponsor dozens of community enterprises. In keeping with this sense of community responsibility-and to perpetuate his newspapers-Publisher Gannett in 1935 gave two-thirds of his Gannett Co. common stock to a philanthropic foundation administered by his executives...
This year, as usual, the sideline critics who pick All-America football teams looked back over the season, squabbled over local favorites, but in the end agreed on enough names to field an unusually fine team. The consensus, notable for its light list of West and East Coasters...