Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elson, a Denver girl, and settled down to raise a family. Last year, when her third husband died, Daisie King bought the Crown-A, a drive-in hamburger stand in West Denver, for $35,000, put Jack in charge (he also had a job as a mechanic at the local Hertz Drive-Ur-Self agency). She also made a down payment on a small home for the Grahams...
...made regular payments on his forgery debt (by last week he had reduced the balance to $105.34), and seemed to be an exemplary family man. In his business he was erratic and clench-fisted, but he had a weakness for children, often selling 10? ice-cream cones to the local kids for a nickel. There were other inconsistencies in the picture. Not long ago, Jack stalled a pickup truck in the path of an oncoming train, collected from his insurance company. Last Labor Day a mysterious gas explosion damaged the Crown-A; the insurance company realized that it had been...
...news board, editors cover every kind of event and opinion, whether it means getting arrested to see how local police treat rioting students, or interviewing Ernest Hemingway to identify Haldor Laxness...
Thus a student who attended graduate school for a few years and then had children would probably still be drafted before he reached the age of 35. If his local draft board had an unusually large pool of volunteers and younger draftees, however, the man could conceivably avoid induction altogether...
Some city planners envisaged a permanent local committee, similar to the one in Chicago where the University of Chicago and the municipal government cooperate, through a joint committee, in local projects...