Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while protesting the Asian attitude, the Guardian seemed to accept the dynamic of retreat. Labor Party thinking is tending to the opinion that it is useless to insist on cast-iron guarantees from local populations against future contingencies when, in an emergency, the British will act as the emergency requires anyway. In the meantime, it is far better not to widen enmities, but to seek consent and the cooperation of local populations by giving them as much as can be given of what they...
...against firms operating on Sunday that cost the paper $45,000 in canceled ads, but succeeded in getting the legislature to ban Sunday used-car sales. Another prizewinner: Cleveland's Catholic Universe Bulletin (circ. 90,795), which campaigned successfully for the ouster of a Communist labor group from local industries...
...Father Raymond T. Bosler, editor of the Indiana Catholic and Record (circ. 35,122), has backed the American Civil Liberties Union in a local fight against the American Legion, once attacked Spain's hard-bitten Cardinal Segura for his crackdown on Protestants. The paper's editorial was headed: THE CARDINAL CALLED THE COPS 400 YEARS TOO LATE. The only comment Editor Bosler got from Archbishop Paul C. Schulte: "I thought your headline was a little flippant...
Young Campbell's portrait made him one of a distinguished company. Raeburn, an orphaned son of a Scottish millowner and largely self-taught in art, had developed his own technique of painting to the point where, in the eyes of the local aristocracy, he was Scotland's greatest artist and the equal of London's Romney, Lawrence and Gainsborough. A Highland chief, when entertaining him, gave the command: "Bonnets off to Sir Henry Raeburn." To his studio in a steady procession came such famed countrymen as Diarist James Boswell, Economist Adam Smith, Philosopher David Hume and Novelist...
...game, and a few were gamesome. There was the wealthy lush who catapulted his Jaguar into the swimming pool ("Every time I go swimming, I keep tasting gin and ethyl"). There was the child-hating old woman who, for the Easter egg hunt, hid the eggs deep in the local cacti. There was the would-be siren on a man spree whom Barbara dubbed "Miss Ladydog." And there were a few prize phonies whom Barbara learned to shun by the chromium on their cars and the fact that their "checks were least likely to succeed...