Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With bitter attacks on the University for "violating its legal trust" and "neglecting its most sacred building," local alumni last week began a drive for $80,000 to restore the ornamentation of the Memorial Hall tower...
...safe (empty). A couple of days later the phantoms struck again, but took nothing. Next night somebody tried to pry open the trunk of Ellen's car, parked in the estate's driveway. Now infuriated to the vaporization point, Mrs. Stevenson fired off to local newspapers a press release that conjured up a vision of a pioneer woman patroling her homestead veranda with a shootin' iron. Her unsentimental sentiments: "Effective immediately, any person found trespassing on the premises after dark will be given one warning to halt ... If this is not heeded, he will be shot without...
Forging his way across the wilds of Washington, D.C., intrepid Rear Admiral (ret.) Richard Evelyn Byrd, 66, who always reached his goal in his dashes to the North and South Poles, showed up at the local Columbia Broadcasting System offices and proclaimed his readiness to record an interview about "Operation Deepfreeze," his new Navy expedition to Antarctica, due to get under way next month. CBS welcomed him warmly, invited the admiral to cool his heels while it explored its program schedules. Half an hour later, it developed that the famed explorer had missed his bearings. Near by, the Mutual Broadcasting...
...section" containing the features, sports and comics as part of a plan to compartmentalize the news for easier reading. By relying more heavily on wire-service coverage of top stories, e.g., last month's "wolf whistle" murder trial in Mississippi, the Trib has saved money, expanded features and local news coverage...
...anti-Christian sparks have already spread to the neighboring state of Madhya Bharat, where a similar investigating committee has been appointed. In Assam, the Christians are currently accused of inciting local tribesmen to revolt; in Travancore Cochin, where 3,000,000 of India's 8,000,000 Christians live, they are being accused of plotting to make the area an "independent Christian state...