Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Local characters, including Crazy Mary, Jerry Walsh, and Scooper Doyle, termed by McCarthy as "Harvard Square students," were all part of his adolescent Cambridge days...
...only effective approach to the integration problem seems to be a pragmatic one. Neither a flabby gradualism nor the use of federal troops can achieve a humane and realistic answer to this emotion-charged issue. Instead, the NAACP should move as fast as it can--as fast as particular local conditions will allow. Gradualism, which has become the off-the-hook byword in a presidential campaign, must not assume that because resistance is strong in some areas and the process will be slow, the integration everywhere in the South should not be rushed...
...delivered copies of British racing forms. For a while the club kept an open stock of canned tidbits, but McKerrow soon had to lock them up because one dishonest prisoner took to pinching the stores. Each evening the select prisoners would dispatch willing warders to place their bets with local bookies...
When in 1950 Congress offered to let Puerto Rico write its own constitution, MunÕz helped draft it and happily saw it approved, 375,000 to 83,000. The constitution makes Puerto Rico self-governing in local affairs, gives it a relationship to the U.S. defined in the official Spanish term as Estado Libre Asociado (Free Associated State); the official translation is Commonwealth. Congress' laws, notably the draft, apply to Puerto Rico, but because the island has no vote in Con gress it is spared the income...
...Elvis Presley himself was appearing at Las Vegas' New Frontier and getting a taste of more adult audiences. There was little screaming to be heard, but some fully grown female listeners matched the star squirm for squirm. As for Elvis, he spent some of his offstage time amusing local showgirls, but most of it amusing himself in a small amusement park, where, for hours on end, he and his cronies rode the dodgem cars, having a wonderful time...