Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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London, one entire section of the city was burned down except for a local tavern, which stood intact, surrounded by gutted buildings. So the grateful innkeeper renamed his pub The God Encompasses...
Gallup found Ike down seven percentage points, but still holding a comfortable 53% in the region encompassing Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. In the Illinois-Indiana-Michigan-Ohio region, Republican Eisenhower was reported up two percentage points to 58%. Local and state polls supported Gallup; e.g., second-week returns from the New York Daily News straw vote showed Ike with 60.8% in the state to Adlai's 39.2% (in overwhelmingly Democratic New York City, Eisenhower, incredibly, led by 51.2% to 48.8%). At Republican headquarters in Washington, National Chairman Leonard Hall, participating...
...weeks ago the main hope of Democrats was that Democratic state and local candidates would pull Stevenson across the line by "reverse coattails." Now some of the state candidates are worrying lest Stevenson drag them backward into defeat. President Eisenhower has long been favored to win re-election-but not by the margins necessary to give coattail-hanging Republicans control of the House and the Senate. Last week the growing possibility of an Eisenhower landslide gave Republicans new hope for winning the desperate congressional struggle...
...swept through the universities and schools. Students have been demanding an end to Russian language classes and compulsory courses in Marxism, more freedom and better living conditions. At one university last week 3,000 students quit their Communist youth organization to form an independent group. As in Poland, local Communist organizations appeared to be behind some of the student agitation, though cautioning them against street demonstrations. At this precarious moment, appropriately, Hungary's new party boss, Erno Gero, turned up in Belgrade to seek Comrade Tito's advice...
...Penn 14 to 7. Since Brown beat Columbia, and the Lions beat Harvard, one might conclude that Dartmouth rated an edge. But one might also note that the Crimson is back on its every-other-game schedule of two years ago when the varsity lost to a weak local team, upset Cornell, lost to Columbia, and then beat the Indians. Perhaps the safest thing that can be said of this game is that its outcome rides on a host of unknowns