Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George worked his way through high school (taking a year off to teach grade school), and toyed with the idea of becoming a dentist. But the drill-and-chisel profession lost a recruit when Judge U. V. Whipple, an orator of local renown, failed to show up for a Masonic convention on the Methodist camp grounds in Preston. Someone suggested that 16-year-old Walter George, the best high-school orator in those parts, stand in for the missing speaker. George was willing, spent 30 minutes preparing himself, then delivered a rousing 40-minute oration on the duties...
...surplus turned back to the manufacturers, plus the companies' own supplies, forms a probable pool of 42 million cc. for commercial distribution, or enough for two-ishot inoculations for 21 million individuals. How this pool is to be distributed is at present left to state and local officials. Priorities are being drawn up and the order suggested in most states is something like this: Kindergarten pupils. Children in the third through eighth grades. Pregnant women. Children aged one to five. Youths from 14 to 20. Theoretically, these groups will have to pay for the vaccine and have it administered...
...leaders darkly accused Eden of precipitant haste, but stoutly insisted that Labor is ready and eager. The present lineup in the House of Commons is Tories 322 seats, Labor 294, Liberals 6. The Tories are confident that they can increase their majority, for the nation is prosperous, and recent local elections have shown a mild swing toward the right. But the result is no foregone conclusion: not since 1832 has an incumbent British government increased its majority in a general election. The Tories are counting on the freshness of Anthony Eden's occupancy of 10 Downing Street...
...resistance in her home area, and, as the years passed and Tito Communism became the law of the land, Ljubinka's gifts carried her to loftier and loftier posts in the party and the government. She became Minister of Education in the Serbian government, a member of the local party's Central Committee, with final authority over Communist newspaper editors, and head of the powerful Control Commission, whose job it is to keep party members in line. Close by Ljubinka's side during much of her rise to power was another promising young Communist, Momcilo Cupic...
...hearse back to the parish house. Moreover, the fire engine and the corn-husking machine were to be kept at the parish house too. Forgiveness. Workmen began battering down a presbytery wall preparatory to building a new garage for these vehicles. Next day, Mayor Mamour and Robert Mocriau, the local garde champetre (village policeman), arrived to inspect operations. They found that Father Lagrave had blocked the hole in the wall. Police man Mocriau and Priest Lagrave began to exchange remarks. Suddenly, Father Lagrave seized the policeman by the arm and pointed to the letters G.C. (for garde champetre...