Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tory second-guessers were quick with explanations: poor local organization, the natural apathy of Conservative voters when their party is securely in power, a purely parochial resentment against national headquarters for bypassing a favorite son in favor of an outsider. But underlying all such glib alibis lay the gloomier suspicion that the Tonbridge vote reflects a growing dissatisfaction with the Tories among Britain's hard-pressed middle classes, who are feeling the pinch of inflation...
Last week, at another by-election in Newport, Monmouthshire, the Tories conducted a campaign designed to correct all the minor faults envisioned at Tonbridge. Big names by the score journeyed down from London to counter local apathy at the polls. The Tory candidate, 39-year old Stockbroker Donald Box, was a local product; his Labor opponent, Sir Frank Soskice, an outsider. The choice between them rested with an electorate whose light Labor majority is well-tempered by a solidly Conservative bloc of prosperous farm owners, shopkeepers and small businessmen. The result: 6,811 fewer voters went to the polls than...
...their first official public appearance since their April wedding, Monaco's Prince Rainier III and Hollywood's Princess Grace rode forth from their palace to a Fourth of July Mass in the local cathedral, later watched a drill put on by the Cadets of the Prince, a boys' cadre sponsored by Rainier's spiritual preceptor and matchmaker, Father Francis Tucker of Wilmington, Del. Meanwhile, palace prattlers reported that Bishop Gilles Barthe of Monaco had been so bold as to ask the Prince if Grace is perchance in a family way. Rainier's careful reply...
...however, "organized religion plays a part . . . altogether unknown elsewhere." Church membership (except in the big cities) is taken for granted, community activities center around the churches. "The Girl Scouts meet in the basement of the church, the Parent-Teachers Association in the Parish House . . . One of the local ministers opens the luncheon meeting of Rotary or the annual drive of the Community Chest . . . There exists the closest and most intimate bond between the Catholic Church and some locals of the United Automobile Workers or the United Steel Workers, between Protestant churches and some locals of the Rubber Workers, or between...
...shopping basket on their way around a supermarket, another woman wandering interminably, "just looking," until she can no longer contain herself and launches into a frenzy of impulse buying. A Report on a fire in the Lutheran church in Sayville, Long Island, and the efforts of the local citizens to rebuild it, moved many British viewers to send contributions of merchandise and money...