Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even as they totaled their losses, many of the weather-beaten farmers in the dry country could take a philosophical, hopeful view. With fresh moisture in the soil of the Southwest, said weathermen, local evaporation may keep alive the kind of storm clouds that have been drying out as they moved across the parched land. Said H. L. Jacobson, chief meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau at Kansas City: "That makes for a more favorable rain situation. In that respect spring is starting off beautifully." At week's end rains washed down into the area...
Faintly visible in last week's developments was a possible acquiescence without agreement based on the referral of both Suez and Aqaba to the World Court. While judgment is being sought, the situation will be shaped to the local preponderance of strength: in Suez, where Egypt has the means and authority to make it stick, Israeli shipping will be barred pending the decision; in Aqaba, Israel is determined and the U.S. is committed to send through ships unless and until the World Court rules otherwise...
...technical aid mission to Iran, 37-year-old Kevin Carroll of Issaquah, Wash, and Brewster Wilson, 35, of Portland, Ore. With Carroll's pretty young wife Anita in their party, they had started their trip across the desert without taking the routine precaution of telling the local gendarmery. Armed with a shotgun and a revolver, the ambushed Americans fought off the bandits, seeking shelter behind a rock when their tires were punctured by shots and holding out until their ammo was exhausted. The fight was useless. One morning last week the gendarmes found the bullet-ridden bodies of Wilson...
Eventually, the Fotouhis won Hiroshima over. When the news broke that this month his tour of duty with the U.S. Information Service will end, local notables protested. The daily Chugoku Press has printed a suggestion that the Fotouhis be made honorary citizens of Hiroshima. In a letter to the U.S. consul general in Kobe, the mayor of the city, the governor of the prefecture and the president of the university asked that Fotouhi be kept on at least two more years. "He has done more than any other person could ever have done," they wrote, "in the interest...
Harran's fortunes rose and fell with shifts of local politics, but its religious importance persisted. The last king of Babylonia, Nabonidus, was so devoted to Moon-God Sin that he tried to make him supreme above all the other gods of the densely populated Mesopotamian pantheon. This religious move was a tactical mistake; the local priests had a vested interest in other gods, and their machinations drove Nabonidus into the wilderness. He came back after a while, but was overwhelmed by Cyrus of Persia...