Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the country, readers repeatedly expressed surprise at the scope and accuracy of TIME'S reports on remote regions of Canada. White's explanation was simple enough: much of TIME'S local news from Canada is reported by top Canadian newsmen, who are often managing editors and editors on leading local newspapers; some of them, like Ralph Daly, editorial writer for the Vancouver Sun, have been reporting for us as long as twelve years...
...interested in many of the island's good works. Unobtrusively, he is building a small public park on the old Dane estate on a scenic headland near Seal Harbor, acquiring more land for the island's roomy Acadia National Park, paying the hospital bills of a local family, laying plans for the removal of more of the unsightly "snags" (tree stumps) left by the 1947 Bar Harbor fire, making up the annual deficit of the Seal Harbor library, encouraging the Seal Harbor Village Improvement Society to keep a neat village green and to provide plenty of parking space...
...crew of ten. Next day, in routine order, it dropped anchor in Port Said to await permission to pass through the canal. Far from being granted permission, Captain Koutales was not even allowed ashore to ask for it. Almost two weeks later the shipping company's local agent managed to get the required permit, but it was canceled almost immediately. The agent was told that he could no longer act for the ship in any capacity, and the Panaghia was ordered to a remote section of the harbor, where an Egyptian patrol launch was set to watch it night...
...mythical view of the world as such . . . the cosmology of a pre-scientific age"; and impossible, because "no man can adopt a view of the world by his own volition-it is already determined for him by his place in history." No one believes any more in a local heaven or a local hell. "And if this is so, we can no longer accept the story of Christ's descent into hell or his ascension into heaven as literally true. We can no longer look for the return of the Son of Man on the clouds of heaven...
Eastbourne (pop. 58,000), where geraniums hang from lampposts, is Britain's most genteel seaside resort and a mecca for wealthy widows who await death in its pleasant Victorian surroundings. For years the teacups buzzed with talk of a local doctor with a large, loyal practice, who doted on his aged patients. He met them at the station after their visits to London, took them for drives in the country, rushed to the bedside at any hour with soothing words...