Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scraggy black cows that had been stolen from a Jordanian Arab last February, taken into Israel and sold. The thief had been arrested by the Jordan police. After a complaint transmitted to Israel by the U.N. Mixed Armistice Commission, Israeli police found the stolen cows in a local barn and promptly arrested two Israeli Arabs for receiving stolen property. To give them a fair trial, the property had first to be identified...
Through all such hassles, Superintendent Moreland went quietly about his work, upping teachers' salaries, importing the best assistants he could, and trying to be a voice for moderation. He bore Ebey's dismissal philosophically, did not even get ruffled when a local radio commentator named Joe Worthy took to the air to urge parents and pupils to form a secret club to tattle on teachers who did not echo the right-wing line. But last week Moreland's monumental patience came to an end when the board flung itself into another orgy of book banning...
Prison had an extraordinary effect on Corpier. Time after time, members of the local Seventh-Day Adventist church came visiting, brought him a Bible and books to study. "It was the first time in my life," says Corpier, "that anyone had done anything for me that I didn't have to pay for. It made quite an impression." What could Corpier do, he asked himself, to help somebody else? Last summer he persuaded Associate Warden T. M. Woodruff of the New Mexico state prison to let him start a course in electronics for convicts...
...Journalism's technological progress has bred too much sameness and mediocrity, according to Editor Henry Beetle Hough of Massachusetts' weekly Vineyard Gazette (circ. 4,993). Examples: "If the same standards that apply to local newspaper writing on the score of interest, concision and carrying its own weight generally were to be applied to some of the syndicated columns of random comment and discourse, the columns would be thrown out of the paper ... As for the editorial pages of the daily newspapers, it is easy to imagine that the visitor from Mars would at once assume they could...
...screen Pianist Carroll H. LeFavor leads two pupils up and down the scales. In 4,000 Illinois homes children follow LeFavor's fingering through the half-hour lessons. Most attractive feature of the lessons, to parents and neighbors: the home course, sold for $1 by a local instrument firm, includes a cardboard keyboard guaranteed to guard against resounding wrong notes...