Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...though Macmillan's Tories had already lost one seat to Labor last fortnight and seen Labor boost its local majority by 50% to retain a seat at Wednesbury last week, the "reeling blow" that Lady Megan dealt was felt less by the Tories than by the once powerful party of her father and of the young Winston Churchill. With Laborite Lloyd George's election, the Liberal Party's representation in the House of Commons was reduced to a pitiful five members...
...League, while countless vague insurgent groups roam the hills and even the streets of Burma's cities. In many places law and order scarcely exist, and Communist atrocities, like the murder last week of a riverboat captain and three of his passengers, rate only a few paragraphs in local papers. Rebels of one kind or another-Red Flag Communists, White Flag Communists. Karens-still control large areas of Burma. The 80,000-man Burmese army has no Magsaysay dedicated to winning through against them...
Ostensibly, Sumual's demands were much the same as those of the Sumatra rebels: autonomy within the Indonesian Republic, plus local control of the foreign exchange earned by East Indonesia's exports. But in Djakarta, Indonesian army spokesmen suggested that the spark which set off the revolt was Sukarno's plan to bring the Communists into a reorganized Indonesian government (TIME, March 4). Unless Sukarno backs down, he might one day find that he is President of little more than the island of Java...
Carleton F. Sharpe, city manager of Hartford, Conn., noted the closeness of local administrators to their problems, and the benefits of more direct contact with experienced superiors. The conference was held in the Dunster House Dining Room...
...play of violent action or of individual detachment. A stale retired professor (Serebriakov), his young wife (Elena), and the daughter (Sonia), brother (Vanya), and mother of his first wife live cramped lives on a faded Russian estate. A visitor, the overworked local doctor (Astrov) wanders in and out of the household. Sonia loves the doctor, who is unaware of her as a woman. Vanya, who feels oppressed and trapped, shares with the doctor a love for Elena, who is quite miserable with her old and pompous husband. The doctor dreams of forestry and the future, yet sees his education...