Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quit school to go to work full time. His self-introduction to the labor movement came at 19, when, as a 32?-an-hour warehouseman for a Detroit grocery chain, he led a successful wildcat strike of fellow employees. Within three years he had taken over Teamsters Local 299 in Detroit, was president of the Michigan Conference of Teamsters...
...Local politicians sling mud with such obvious disregard for the validity of their charges, that the interested citizen can usually gain only a dramatic diversion by following their activities. The latest explosion at City Hall, however, reaches much deeper than the usual headline-grabbing maneuver. In effect, it is a public announcement that all efforts at either implementing Urban Renewal or continuing planning work have for the moment ground to a halt...
Although the Korean War came after the militant period, the Soviets considered it only a part of the local Asian contest. Western resistance served only to convince them that a policy of co-existence must be developed...
...story were well-handled. But the author seems to have almost no control. Every possible detail and almost all the conceivable eventualities of a bullfight are crammed into the story, completely obscuring the character of the novillero who achieves his consummation in death. Besides this retailing of tauromachian local-color, Fisher afflicts his readers with a stiff, unrealistic dialogue (including some unconvincing, garrulous pre-fight speeches by the matador). Add to this a number of much mouthed moralizations on the art and significance of bullfighting and you have a long story which can easily be skipped...
Twist of Fate. In Newark, Leroy Bonner, 24, confessed that he had robbed a local gas station and diner, told the cops that he had turned to crime because he just couldn't make a living baking, bending and selling pretzels...