Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bigger and better soil, water and timber conservation programs, more support for the national-park system, more outdoor recreational facilities. At issue: the Democrats advocate more public-power projects and more Government control over the nation's resources; the Republicans believe their development must come through federal-state-local "partnerships," with all interested parties assuming equal responsibility...
...death toll mounted to 18, there emerged a strange coalition of forces, united only by their interest in fishing in troubled waters. Indian Communists, who a few weeks earlier had been denouncing the Gujaratis as "moneybag oppressors" of the Marathas, now rushed to champion the Gujarati cause. Local Socialists jumped on the bandwagon. And huffing and puffing alongside these leftist troublemakers were Gujarati businessmen and mill owners who foresaw difficulties in handling Maratha labor in a state dominated by Maratha voters. Between them, these strange allies produced a breakdown of law and order in Ahmedabad...
...U.A.W. stump man is sent to badger the prospective buyer. Last December Los Angeles' State Plumbing & Heating Co. ordered $100,000 worth of Kohler plumbing for an addition to the Los Angeles County General Hospital. Immediately, State's President E. J. Weinberger was solicited by the local plumbers' union to pressure Kohler to settle its differences. Fearful that his plumbers would slow down, Weinberger canceled the order...
...Family Party purports to be a "stenographic report" of a speech in honor of a leading citizen, Dr. Sam Merritt. Dr. Sam has put in 40 years of selfless service, and his friends are giving him a dinner at the local hotel to show that they love and honor him. (O'Hara is himself the son of a small-town doctor.) The speech made by Dr. Merritt's friend, one Albert Shoemaker, has the uncanny accuracy of sentimentality and vernacular inflection that perhaps only O'Hara can command. Anyone who has lived in a small town...
There is Dr. Sam, a little uncomfortable at being praised so, now and then signaling his friend to lay off. Nothing doing. Bert Shoemaker recalls Doc's youth, the old days when he worked at the local drugstore, his herculean labors with the injured the day of the great train wreck, how he raised funds for the nearby hospital, how soft he was about collecting bills from the poor. Brusquely, yet delicately, Speaker Shoemaker talks about the doctor's great bereavement−the beloved wife whose mind gave way after she lost two babies. A Family Party...