Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accepted the Big Dry with much the same resignation as I've accepted everything else about Texas. Your article made me realize it was not a local exaggeration. I would like to add a footnote: a fellow from the office went fishing last weekend and upon his return was naturally asked if he had any luck. "Sure did," he replied. "We found water...
...week crowned King of Kings, Five Times Godly, Valorous Warrior and Divine Emperor. With the towering Himalayas as a backdrop, and money no object, it was the subcontinent's party of the year. Everybody was anxious to make the coronation a thumping success. Distrusting the manners of their local waiters, the Nepalese had imported 130 skilled servitors from India to minister to the distinguished guests. The best chef in town was sprung from jail (where he was serving a sentence for bootlegging) to supervise the feasts. Forty extra taxicabs of 2O-year vintage had been driven into town over...
Tonight at 8 p.m. a rally with brief pointed talks by four prominent local Democrats will open the mock convention. Professors Samuel H. Beer and Seymour E. Harris '20, Mrs. Joseph Cass, Massachusetts State Committeewoman, and a local AFL leader will speak...
...with $28 million in vital government research contracts, may well expect sharp public criticism for rehiring a man who has invoked privileges against self-incrimination. But if the Institute choses to ban Struik now solely on the grounds of his political beliefs, its academic freedom will have become what local Struik-baiter and Suffolk Court Clerk Thomas J. Dorgan once called "a hackeyed phrase, anyway...
...building their $3,000,000 Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, the Clarks ignored cost (local boosters boast that the marble for the new museum was the biggest single order in Vermont since the U.S. Supreme Court), but insisted on quality. In 45 years of collecting, the Clarks have ranged widely, from Botticelli and Piero della Francesca to Puvis de Chavannes. The museum still has 30-odd Renoirs tucked in the basement, one soon-to-be-opened gallery hung with Italian primitives. The rest of the Clarks' collection, housed in residences both in the U.S. and abroad...