Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first chance local fans will have to look over the stickmen will be on Dec. 18 at the Boston Arena, again against Providence College...
...Antonina's mother went to waken her daughter, she found her gone. "Those two young doves," said a villager as he told of it later, "had flown." That afternoon when the doves had returned, irate father Polizzi haled Giuseppe Pellerito and his father Salvatore before a court of local elders in the butcher shop for the kind of arbitration known locally as ragionamento. a reasoning...
...have caused much stir. But Mrs. Schoenheit was formerly a public-school teacher in Illinois, and Cheney now teaches at the Eldon high school. This fall they independently decided to keep their seven-year-old daughters out of school and teach them at home. Reason: both felt that the local public schools are not doing a good enough...
...were trying Erauzquin's new technique. Results were phenomenal. Training with the Finnish Olympic team, 26-year-old Antti Seppala got off a 270-ft. toss. In France, 165-ft. javelin-throwers hit 230 ft. At week's end Norwegian Egil Danielsen repaired to a field (the local stadium was too small), whirled three times, and flung the javelin 304 ft. 1.68 in., nearly 30 ft. farther than the world's record of 274 ft. 5¾ in. claimed by Poland's Janusz Sidlo...
...where most people don't wear shoes or brassieres, is a timeless little town inexplicably concerned with the manufacture of fire-works. Most Italian villages are anxious to marry off their maidens handsomely and most Italian loafers spend much of their time standing in the sun holding up the local church's sturdy stone walls; in these two respects, this village and these loafers don't seem very different. In their midst, however, is an unlucky young man just returned from military service, pursued mercilessly by the cackling village wench. His mother and her father are both a little insane...