Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first day Brownell arrived in Washington he saw a Negro family being thrown out of a restaurant. The Brownell Justice Department took the Thompson restaurant case out of the hands of an uncooperative local prosecutor, soon won a court victory abolishing segregation in Washington restaurants. Brownell followed un with unpublicized conferences with businessmen and city officials, helped bring about integration in the parks, playgrounds, theaters and other public places of the nation's capital. A Justice Department brief helped persuade the Interstate Commerce Commission to outlaw segregation on interstate trains and buses. Brownell invited Southern transportation-company heads...
...Local bookmakers established the CRIMSON as a 23-2 favorite for Saturday's game...
Nonetheless, the local nine will almost certainly get its first heavy competition in a G.B.L. that has proved al too easy meat for the veteran Crimson...
Still voicing defiance, Beck told the AFL-CIO Ethical Practices Committee its charges--which could lead to ouster of the Teamsters Union from the labor federation--constituted "malicious and unfounded slander of our membership and our official family, local and national...
Actually you're partly correct, but for the whole story we must go back one or two years to 1856, in "Indja," where Flynn, as noble, good-hearted, brave and true, in a word, English, Major Geoffrey Vicars, skirmishes baggy-trousered local rebels, goes panther shooting, or was it cheetahs, with the treacherous Surat Khan, and loses the love of Olivia DeHaviland, whose lower lip quivers almost continuously in the role of some English general's tender-sweet daughter. The charge, rung in as a sort of last resort in the last ten minutes of the film, climaxes an hour...