Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed to feel that peace, however fitful, and prosperity, however spotted, would last. And with that mood prevailing, reported TIME correspondents across the nation, Americans were devoting their time, their energies and their conversation primarily to affairs domestic and local...
Harding & Missiles. Underlying the U.S.'s local preoccupations was some real news of a different sort: after years on end of living with crisis and talk of crisis, the U.S. has settled into a New Normalcy, unhaunted by fears that twitches abroad mean another world war or that economic twinges at home mean another Great Depression...
...nostrums but normalcy." That was a static, isolationist normalcy; 1957's is a capacity for tolerating crisis and change. With hardly a murmur, key U.S. cities have accepted the sleek Nike antiaircraft missile batteries as next-door neighbors. Scores of cities have faced up to a decline in local industry by all-out and usually successful attempts to attract new industry. Leading example: South Bend, Ind. South Bend was hit hard in 1954 when Studebaker stalled and Singer (sewing machines) pulled out. and a committee of South Bend businessmen set about making the city attractive to industry, saw three...
Sometimes, as Franky Machine would say, some cats just hang that way; but for the local citizens it was purely old Sorrowville...
...other parts of the Governor's program (ranging from penal reforms to the establishment of performance budgets for state departments) will doubtless drag on long into hectic summer sessions, since Massachusetts legislators usually spend the first few months each year preoccupied with their insurance businesses, law practices, or local what-have...